diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/2712-fvsqr b/changelogs/unreleased/2712-fvsqr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3f538fae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/2712-fvsqr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+StorageGrid compatibility by removing explicit gzip accept header setting
diff --git a/pkg/cmd/util/downloadrequest/downloadrequest.go b/pkg/cmd/util/downloadrequest/downloadrequest.go
index bef8dd865..f302ba8fd 100644
--- a/pkg/cmd/util/downloadrequest/downloadrequest.go
+++ b/pkg/cmd/util/downloadrequest/downloadrequest.go
@@ -139,11 +139,6 @@ Loop:
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// Manually set this header so the net/http library does not automatically try to decompress. We
-	// need to handle this manually because it's not currently possible to set the MIME type for the
-	// pre-signed URLs for GCP or Azure.
-	httpReq.Header.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip")
-
 	resp, err := httpClient.Do(httpReq)
 	if err != nil {
 		if urlErr, ok := err.(*url.Error); ok {