From aca4f7dff0ee615164668e923deaf5cc96ab1c8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:07:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't remove Content-Encoding in fetchurl / nix-prefetch-url

Fixes #1568.
---
 src/libstore/builtins.cc                 | 1 +
 src/libstore/download.cc                 | 3 ++-
 src/libstore/download.hh                 | 1 +
 src/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc | 4 +++-
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libstore/builtins.cc b/src/libstore/builtins.cc
index 1075b45c0..4ca4a838e 100644
--- a/src/libstore/builtins.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/builtins.cc
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData)
            the result anyway. */
         DownloadRequest request(url);
         request.verifyTLS = false;
+        request.decompress = false;
 
         /* Note: have to use a fresh downloader here because we're in
            a forked process. */
diff --git a/src/libstore/download.cc b/src/libstore/download.cc
index f5304daee..3f5e744dd 100644
--- a/src/libstore/download.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/download.cc
@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ struct CurlDownloader : public Downloader
                 done = true;
 
                 try {
-                    result.data = decodeContent(encoding, ref<std::string>(result.data));
+                    if (request.decompress)
+                        result.data = decodeContent(encoding, ref<std::string>(result.data));
                     callSuccess(success, failure, const_cast<const DownloadResult &>(result));
                     act.progress(result.data->size(), result.data->size());
                 } catch (...) {
diff --git a/src/libstore/download.hh b/src/libstore/download.hh
index 752bf3723..f2d65ad8d 100644
--- a/src/libstore/download.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/download.hh
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct DownloadRequest
     size_t tries = 5;
     unsigned int baseRetryTimeMs = 250;
     ActivityId parentAct;
+    bool decompress = true;
 
     DownloadRequest(const std::string & uri)
         : uri(uri), parentAct(curActivity) { }
diff --git a/src/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc b/src/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc
index 791a1eeb5..7e62a033b 100644
--- a/src/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc
+++ b/src/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc
@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv)
             auto actualUri = resolveMirrorUri(state, uri);
 
             /* Download the file. */
-            auto result = getDownloader()->download(DownloadRequest(actualUri));
+            DownloadRequest req(actualUri);
+            req.decompress = false;
+            auto result = getDownloader()->download(req);
 
             AutoDelete tmpDir(createTempDir(), true);
             Path tmpFile = (Path) tmpDir + "/tmp";