diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
index 19d6345e4..eb00d8923 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class HttpCompressionMiddleware(object):
encoding = content_encoding.pop()
decoded_body = self._decode(response.body, encoding.lower())
respcls = responsetypes.from_args(headers=response.headers, \
- url=response.url)
+ url=response.url, body=decoded_body)
kwargs = dict(cls=respcls, body=decoded_body)
if issubclass(respcls, TextResponse):
# force recalculating the encoding until we make sure the
diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
index 7924fb3b5..5403e8f52 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from scrapy.spiders import Spider
from scrapy.http import Response, Request, HtmlResponse
from scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression import HttpCompressionMiddleware, \
ACCEPTED_ENCODINGS
+from scrapy.responsetypes import responsetypes
from tests import tests_datadir
from w3lib.encoding import resolve_encoding
@@ -152,6 +153,20 @@ class HttpCompressionTest(TestCase):
self.assertEqual(newresponse.body, plainbody)
self.assertEqual(newresponse.encoding, resolve_encoding('gb2312'))
+ def test_process_response_no_content_type_header(self):
+ headers = {
+ 'Content-Encoding': 'identity',
+ }
+ plainbody = b"""Some page"""
+ respcls = responsetypes.from_args(url="http://www.example.com/index", headers=headers, body=plainbody)
+ response = respcls("http://www.example.com/index", headers=headers, body=plainbody)
+ request = Request("http://www.example.com/index")
+
+ newresponse = self.mw.process_response(request, response, self.spider)
+ assert isinstance(newresponse, respcls)
+ self.assertEqual(newresponse.body, plainbody)
+ self.assertEqual(newresponse.encoding, resolve_encoding('gb2312'))
+
def test_process_response_gzipped_contenttype(self):
response = self._getresponse('gzip')
response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/gzip'