From 5f2827efe7b069e514a87bd0f7a9589f49f0a97a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= <adrian@chaves.io>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:02:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make HttpCompressionMiddleware changes backward-comaptible

---
 scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
index f03294d65..1a3f6962a 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ class HttpCompressionMiddleware:
     """This middleware allows compressed (gzip, deflate) traffic to be
     sent/received from web sites"""
 
-    def __init__(self, *, crawler=None):
+    def __init__(self, stats=None, *, crawler=None):
         if not crawler:
+            if stats:
+                self.stats = stats
             return
         self.stats = crawler.stats
         self._max_size = crawler.settings.getint("DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE")