Requesting a representation through HTTP with GZIP compression

gistfile1.js

var request = require('request'),
    zlib = require('zlib');

var headers = { 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip' };

var response = request({ url:'http://perdu.com/', headers: headers });
response.on('response', function (response) {
  // decode the stream if necessary
  if (response.headers['content-encoding'] === 'gzip')
    response = response.pipe(zlib.createGunzip());
  // handle the stream
  response.pipe(process.stdout);
});