diff --git a/src/main/java/no/digipost/api/client/internal/http/response/HttpResponseUtils.java b/src/main/java/no/digipost/api/client/internal/http/response/HttpResponseUtils.java
index dd1e1fbf..6034b0dc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/no/digipost/api/client/internal/http/response/HttpResponseUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/no/digipost/api/client/internal/http/response/HttpResponseUtils.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import no.digipost.api.client.representations.ErrorType;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpResponse;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ClassicHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.Header;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpEntity;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpStatus;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 
 import static no.digipost.api.client.errorhandling.ErrorCode.GENERAL_ERROR;
 import static no.digipost.api.client.internal.ExceptionUtils.exceptionNameAndMessage;
@@ -55,7 +57,14 @@ public static InputStream safelyOfferEntityStreamExternally(ClassicHttpResponse
         try {
             checkResponse(response, eventLogger);
             entity = response.getEntity();
-            return entity.getContent();
+            InputStream stream = entity.getContent();
+
+            Header encodingHeader = response.getFirstHeader("Content-Encoding");
+            if (encodingHeader != null && "gzip".equalsIgnoreCase(encodingHeader.getValue())) {
+                return new GZIPInputStream(stream);
+            }
+
+            return stream;
         } catch (IOException | RuntimeException e) {
             try (ClassicHttpResponse autoClosed = response) {
                 EntityUtils.consume(entity);