diff --git a/src/cpp-utils/network/CurlHttpClient.cpp b/src/cpp-utils/network/CurlHttpClient.cpp
index ee6345f4..317a3560 100644
--- a/src/cpp-utils/network/CurlHttpClient.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp-utils/network/CurlHttpClient.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ namespace cpputils {
         // example.com is redirected, so we tell libcurl to follow redirection
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1); //Prevent "longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame" bug
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "deflate");
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "deflate");
         ostringstream out;
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &CurlHttpClient::write_data);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &out);