@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ module.exports = function (source, options) {
     code.push(opts.short ? '-0' : '--http1.0')
   }
 
+  if (headerHelpers.getHeader(source.allHeaders, 'accept-encoding')) {
+    code.push('--compressed')
+  }
+
   // if multipart form data, we want to remove the boundary
   if (source.postData.mimeType === 'multipart/form-data') {
     const contentTypeHeaderName = headerHelpers.getHeaderName(source.headersObj, 'content-type')
 
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "method": "GET",
+  "url": "http://mockbin.com/har",
+  "headers": [
+    {
+      "name": "accept-encoding",
+      "value": "deflate, gzip, br"
+    }
+  ]
+}
@@ -64,6 +64,15 @@ module.exports = function (HTTPSnippet, fixtures) {
     result.should.eql('curl --request GET --url http://mockbin.com/request --http1.0')
   })
 
+  it('should use --compressed for requests that accept encodings', function () {
+    const result = new HTTPSnippet(fixtures.curl.compression).convert('shell', 'curl', {
+      indent: false
+    })
+
+    result.should.be.a.String()
+    result.should.eql("curl --request GET --url http://mockbin.com/har --compressed --header 'accept-encoding: deflate, gzip, br'")
+  })
+
   it('should use custom indentation', function () {
     const result = new HTTPSnippet(fixtures.requests.full).convert('shell', 'curl', {
       indent: '@'