diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 8be01b43308..1729670afaa 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -710,6 +710,7 @@ Release 0.90.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3272  Remove no longer used options
    HBASE-3269  HBase table truncate semantics seems broken as "disable" table
                is now async by default
+   HBASE-3275  [rest] No gzip/deflate content encoding support
 
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/Main.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/Main.java
index 8e5c9979746..54866b6d3d8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/Main.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import org.mortbay.jetty.Server;
 import org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context;
 import org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;
+import org.mortbay.servlet.GzipFilter;
 
 import com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer;
 
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@ public class Main implements Constants {
       // set up context
     Context context = new Context(server, "/", Context.SESSIONS);
     context.addServlet(sh, "/*");
+    context.addFilter(GzipFilter.class, "/*", 0);
 
     server.start();
     server.join();