diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index c6ba9379bf..67f7a15900 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -970,3 +970,10 @@ David  24 Jan 2012
 	client/
 		client_types.cpp
 		cs_files.cpp
+
+Rom    24 Jan 2012
+    - client: undo my previous commit.  We request .gz from the server and write
+        the contents to a .gzt file.
+ 
+    client/
+        http_curl.cpp
diff --git a/client/http_curl.cpp b/client/http_curl.cpp
index 4df85a9a46..a9a87087a5 100644
--- a/client/http_curl.cpp
+++ b/client/http_curl.cpp
@@ -547,10 +547,7 @@ int HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(
     // use gzip at the application level.
     // So, detect this and don't accept any encoding in that case
     //
-    if (!out ||
-        !ends_with(std::string(out), std::string(".gz")) ||
-        !ends_with(std::string(out), std::string(".gzt")))
-    {
+    if (!out || !ends_with(std::string(out), std::string(".gz"))) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
     }