Scala Request Sttp

It took me an entire workday to figure out how to make an API request to a server that responds with Content-Encoding: identity using the STTP client.

It seems that the STTP client always tries to decompress the server’s response.
However, the backend (in this case, a Microsoft API) ignores the Accept-Encoding settings in the header.

The solution to this issue was to add .disableAutoDecompression to the client settings.

You can find the final working code snippet below:

val response = basicRequest
      .get(uri"https://api.example.com/endpoint")
      .header("Authorization", token)
      .disableAutoDecompression // Prevents unsupported encoding: identity !!
      .send(backend)