diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b7611212..7ae2ddaa 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ set( CMAKE_ALLOW_LOOSE_LOOP_CONSTRUCTS TRUE )
 # make sure to change the version in docs/Makefile
 set (MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
 set (MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MINOR 48)
-set (MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_PATCH 0)
+set (MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_PATCH 1)
 set (MUJINCLIENT_VERSION ${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR}.${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MINOR}.${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_PATCH})
 set (MUJINCLIENT_SOVERSION ${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR}.${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MINOR})
 set (CLIENT_SOVERSION ${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR}.${MUJINCLIENT_VERSION_MINOR})
diff --git a/src/controllerclientimpl.cpp b/src/controllerclientimpl.cpp
index 1ac8e47b..de7fc0c0 100644
--- a/src/controllerclientimpl.cpp
+++ b/src/controllerclientimpl.cpp
@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ ControllerClientImpl::ControllerClientImpl(const std::string& usernamepassword,
     CURL_OPTION_SETTER(_curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, 0L);
     CURL_OPTION_SETTER(_curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, NULL);
 
+    {
+        curl_version_info_data *ver = curl_version_info(CURLVERSION_NOW);
+        if(ver->features & CURL_VERSION_LIBZ) {
+            CURL_OPTION_SETTER(_curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "gzip, deflate");
+        }
+    }
+
     // csrftoken can be any non-empty string
     _csrfmiddlewaretoken = "csrftoken";
     std::string cookie = "Set-Cookie: csrftoken=" + _csrfmiddlewaretoken;
@@ -974,8 +981,6 @@ void ControllerClientImpl::_SetupHTTPHeadersJSON()
     _httpheadersjson = curl_slist_append(_httpheadersjson, s.c_str());
     _httpheadersjson = curl_slist_append(_httpheadersjson, "Connection: Keep-Alive");
     _httpheadersjson = curl_slist_append(_httpheadersjson, "Keep-Alive: 20"); // keep alive for 20s?
-    // test on windows first
-    //_httpheadersjson = curl_slist_append(_httpheadersjson, "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate");
 }
 
 void ControllerClientImpl::_SetupHTTPHeadersSTL()