diff --git a/src/clickhouse.js b/src/clickhouse.js
index b5fc28e..a145067 100644
--- a/src/clickhouse.js
+++ b/src/clickhouse.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ var https = require('https');
 var url  = require ('url');
 var qs   = require ('querystring');
 var util = require ('util');
+var zlib = require('zlib');
 
 // var debug = require ('debug')('clickhouse');
 
@@ -137,6 +138,9 @@ function httpResponseHandler (stream, reqParams, reqData, cb, response) {
 
 		// one shot data parsing, should be much faster for smaller datasets
 		try {
+			if (response.headers['content-encoding'] === 'gzip') {
+				str = zlib.gunzipSync(str)
+			}
 			data = JSON.parse (str.toString ('utf8'));
 
 			data.transferred = symbolsTransferred;