diff --git a/lib/google/apis/core/base_service.rb b/lib/google/apis/core/base_service.rb
index cb368caed..b5315d0c2 100644
--- a/lib/google/apis/core/base_service.rb
+++ b/lib/google/apis/core/base_service.rb
@@ -400,7 +400,10 @@ module Google
         def new_client
           client = ::HTTPClient.new
 
-          client.transparent_gzip_decompression = true
+          if client_options.transparent_gzip_decompression
+            client.transparent_gzip_decompression = client_options.transparent_gzip_decompression
+          end
+          
           client.proxy = client_options.proxy_url if client_options.proxy_url
 
           if client_options.open_timeout_sec
diff --git a/lib/google/apis/options.rb b/lib/google/apis/options.rb
index 69be662a6..9b617d483 100644
--- a/lib/google/apis/options.rb
+++ b/lib/google/apis/options.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ module Google
       :open_timeout_sec,
       :read_timeout_sec,
       :send_timeout_sec,
-      :log_http_requests)
+      :log_http_requests,
+      :transparent_gzip_decompression)
 
     RequestOptions = Struct.new(
       :authorization,
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ module Google
       #   @return [Fixnum] How long, in seconds, before failed connections time out
       # @!attribute [rw] read_timeout_sec
       #   @return [Fixnum] How long, in seconds, before requests time out
+      # @!attribute [rw] transparent_gzip_decompression
+      # @return [Boolean] True if gzip compression needs to be enabled
       # Get the default options
       # @return [Google::Apis::ClientOptions]
       def self.default
@@ -92,6 +95,7 @@ module Google
     ClientOptions.default.log_http_requests = false
     ClientOptions.default.application_name = 'unknown'
     ClientOptions.default.application_version = '0.0.0'
+    ClientOptions.default.transparent_gzip_decompression = true
     RequestOptions.default.retries = 0
     RequestOptions.default.normalize_unicode = false
     RequestOptions.default.skip_serialization = false