diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 8b9a0dd..b04efc5 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -71,12 +71,15 @@ async fn process (mut stream: TcpStream, args: A) -> Result<()> {
     let headers = Headers::parse(&mut data).await;
 
 
+    let encoding = Encoding::from(headers.get("Accept-Encoding"));
+
+
     use Method as M;
     let response = match (method, target.as_str()) {
         (M::GET, "/") => Response::Empty,
-        (M::GET, "/user-agent") => Response::TextPlain(headers.get("User-Agent").to_owned()),
+        (M::GET, "/user-agent") => Response::TextPlain(headers.get("User-Agent").to_owned(), encoding),
         // p if let Some(echo) = p.strip_prefix("/echo/") => Response::TextPlain(echo), // a nicer way to do that, not available in stable yet
-        (M::GET, r) if r.starts_with("/echo/") => Response::TextPlain(r.trim_start_matches("/echo/").to_owned()),
+        (M::GET, r) if r.starts_with("/echo/") => Response::TextPlain(r.trim_start_matches("/echo/").to_owned(), encoding),
         (M::GET, r) if r.starts_with("/files/") => 'file : {
             let Some(path) = &args.directory else { break 'file Response::_500; };
             let path = path.join(r.trim_start_matches("/files/"));
@@ -136,17 +139,35 @@ impl Headers {
     }
 }
 
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-enum Response {
-    _201,
-    _400,
-    _404,
-    _500,
-    Empty,
-    TextPlain (String),
-    OctetStream (Vec<u8>)
+enum Encoding {
+    Gzip,
+    Invalid,
+    None,
 }
 
+
+impl Encoding {
+    pub fn header (&self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            Self::Gzip => "Content-Encoding: gzip",
+            _ => d!()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<&str> for Encoding {
+    fn from (s: &str) -> Self {
+        match s.to_ascii_lowercase().as_str()  {
+            "" => Self::None,
+            "gzip" => Self::Gzip,
+            _ => Self::Invalid
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 enum Method {
     GET,
@@ -172,6 +193,16 @@ impl TryFrom<&str> for Method {
     }
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+enum Response {
+    _201,
+    _400,
+    _404,
+    _500,
+    Empty,
+    TextPlain (String, Encoding),
+    OctetStream (Vec<u8>)
+}
 
 #[allow(non_upper_case_globals)]
 impl Response {
@@ -186,7 +217,7 @@ impl Response {
             Self::OctetStream(bytes) => {
                 v.extend_from_slice(&bytes);
             },
-            Self::TextPlain(text) => {
+            Self::TextPlain(text, _) => {
                 v.extend_from_slice(text.as_bytes());
             },
             _ => ()
@@ -207,7 +238,8 @@ impl Response {
 
     fn headers (&self) -> Vec<String> {
         match self {
-            Self::TextPlain(text) => vec![
+            Self::TextPlain(text, enc) => vec![
+                enc.header().to_string(),
                      f!("Content-Type: text/plain"),
                 format!("Content-Length: {}", text.len())
             ],