diff --git a/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb b/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
index deea556..bd864e0 100644
--- a/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
+++ b/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class WaybackMachineDownloader
           structure_dir_path dir_path
           open(file_path, "wb") do |file|
             begin
-              open("http://web.archive.org/web/#{file_timestamp}id_/#{file_url}") do |uri|
+              open("http://web.archive.org/web/#{file_timestamp}id_/#{file_url}", "Accept-Encoding" => "plain") do |uri|
                 file.write(uri.read)
               end
             rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => e