Laravel Middleware to automatically gunzip content if it states gzip in "Content-Encoding" header

GunzipResponseMiddleware.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use HttpResponseException;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Throwable;

class GunzipResponseMiddleware
{
    /**
     * @throws HttpResponseException
     */
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next): Response
    {
        if ('gzip' === $request->header(key: 'Content-Encoding')) {
            $gzipped_content = $request->getContent();
            $request->headers->remove('Content-Encoding');

            try {
                $content = gzdecode(data: $gzipped_content);
            } catch (Throwable $e) {
                throw new HttpResponseException(
                    message: 'Failed to decode gzipped content: ' . $e->getMessage(),
                    code: Response::HTTP_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE,
                );
            }

            $new_request = new Request;
            $new_request->initialize(
                query: $request->query->all(),
                request: $request->request->all(),
                attributes: $request->attributes->all(),
                cookies: $request->cookies->all(),
                files: $request->files->all(),
                server: $request->server->all(),
                content: $content,
            );

            app()->instance(abstract: 'request', instance: $new_request);
            app()->instance(abstract: Request::class, instance: $new_request);
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}