diff --git a/SoftLayer/API.py b/SoftLayer/API.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/SoftLayer/API.py
+++ b/SoftLayer/API.py
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ class Client(object):
             'Content-Type': 'application/xml',
         }
 
-        if compress:
-            http_headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'deflate, compress, gzip'
+        if not compress:
+            http_headers['Accept-Encoding'] = ''
 
         if raw_headers:
             http_headers.update(raw_headers)
diff --git a/SoftLayer/transports.py b/SoftLayer/transports.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/SoftLayer/transports.py
+++ b/SoftLayer/transports.py
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ def make_xml_rpc_api_call(uri, method, args=None, headers=None,
         response = requests.post(uri, data=payload,
                                  headers=http_headers,
                                  timeout=timeout)
+        log.debug(response.request.headers)
+        log.debug(response.headers)
         log.debug(response.content)
         response.raise_for_status()
         result = xmlrpclib.loads(response.content,)[0][0]
Inverted compress flag behavior as requests compresses by default