gistfile1.txt

diff --git a/includes/drush.inc b/includes/drush.inc
index b59d29c..e1244d6 100644
--- a/includes/drush.inc
+++ b/includes/drush.inc
@@ -836,12 +836,12 @@ function _drush_download_file($url, $destination, $overwrite = TRUE) {
   }
 
   $destination_tmp = drush_tempnam('download_file');
-  if ($use_wget) {
+  if ($use_wget && FALSE) {
     drush_shell_exec("wget -q --timeout=30 -O %s %s", $destination_tmp, $url);
   }
   else {
     // Force TLS1+ as per https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/issues/894.
-    drush_shell_exec("curl --tlsv1 --fail -s -L --connect-timeout 30 -o %s %s", $destination_tmp, $url);
+    drush_shell_exec("curl --compressed --tlsv1 --fail -s -L --connect-timeout 30 -o %s %s", $destination_tmp, $url);
   }
   if (!drush_file_not_empty($destination_tmp) && $file = @file_get_contents($url)) {
     @file_put_contents($destination_tmp, $file);

Fix for wget:

wget --header="accept-encoding: gzip" -q --timeout=30 -O %s %s