Cannot print body of agario correctly

Question

I have encountered a weird problem I don't know how to fix. I use the following code to print the body of the response.

proxy_response.setEncoding('utf-8');
proxy_response.on('data', function (chunk) {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
});
proxy_response.on('end', function() {
    console.log('No more data in response.')
});

This code works fine with this website, but if I try it with Agar.io, it fails and prints a weird sequence of characters, even thogh the encoding is correct (According to the meta charset attribute of the response). I can view the correct source with chrome by typing view-source:agar.io into the search bar (This is what I would want my program to print). This is how the response looks like. This is the code I am confused about.

First, it sounds like you are up to no-good. Second, you need to include all of your code for the creation of your proxy_response object so we can have a working example. — Preston S, Sep 25 '15 at 16:27
thanks @PrestonS for trying to help. I edited the question, I hope you can help :) the code: http://pastebin.com/vt8DCHu9 — Distjubo, Sep 25 '15 at 17:09
the weird thing is that it works for every other website I have tested, just not agario. — Distjubo, Sep 25 '15 at 17:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Agar.io's response is gzipped.

In the response headers you see:

Content-Encoding: gzip

See this answer for how to unzip it. Basically, pipe it to gunzip

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Sep 25 '15 at 19:19

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Thanks! You just saved me a lot of overnight debugging hours with lots of coffee. I'm such a derp. – Distjubo Sep 25 '15 at 19:36

Cannot print body of agario correctly

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