diff --git a/contract-tests/service.rb b/contract-tests/service.rb
index d3c520fa..a14221c2 100644
--- a/contract-tests/service.rb
+++ b/contract-tests/service.rb
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
       'migrations',
       'event-sampling',
       'context-comparison',
+      'polling-gzip',
     ],
   }.to_json
 end
diff --git a/lib/ldclient-rb/requestor.rb b/lib/ldclient-rb/requestor.rb
index c58ec81a..d1542890 100644
--- a/lib/ldclient-rb/requestor.rb
+++ b/lib/ldclient-rb/requestor.rb
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ def initialize(sdk_key, config)
       @sdk_key = sdk_key
       @config = config
       @http_client = LaunchDarkly::Util.new_http_client(config.base_uri, config)
+        .use(:auto_inflate)
+        .headers("Accept-Encoding" => "gzip")
       @cache = @config.cache_store
     end