diff -r 7c75924a6926 -r b468cea3f29d hgext/bugzilla.py
--- a/hgext/bugzilla.py	Tue Feb 28 23:47:46 2012 +0200
+++ b/hgext/bugzilla.py	Wed Feb 29 17:43:03 2012 +0000
@@ -497,6 +497,7 @@
 
     def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
         self.verbose = verbose
+        self.accept_gzip_encoding = False
 
         # issue XML-RPC request
         h = self.make_connection(host)