cfhttp and gzip compression

I just wasted an hour with a simple cfhttp post problem, and I wouldn't wish any of my readers to go through the same process.

I was integrating with a bank to get a deposit slip completely filled up with client information and allow my client to print it without leaving my site. When I manually posted the form to the bank it worked, but through CF I kept getting a Connection Failed in the body. I knew if wasn't blocking me, because it also provided me with an ASP session cookie; so I looked at the headers using an http packet sniffer and I saw two variables that could be a problem: Transfer-Encoding: chunked, and Content-Encoding: gzip.

After an hour, I discovered that CF, or even worse, Java will not accept gzip encoding, so right when I was about to give up, I found that I can request a specific encoding by supplying http headers for 'Accept-Encoding'.

Here's the magic: