peel_ref: do not return a null sha1

diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 9bac1d89fdb639f6991bfe9f683ccf7bd5ada4cb..345c171c5fd572e65e34ea421a334141a5438979 100644 (file)
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ static int http_request(const char *url, void *result, int target, int options)
 
        curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
        curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
+       curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
 
        if (start_active_slot(slot)) {
                run_active_slot(slot);