Enable compression for all of our custom requests.

src/bootstrap.coffee

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ utils = require './utils'
 crypto = require 'crypto'
 config = require './config'
 csrgen = Promise.promisify require 'csr-gen'
-request = Promise.promisify require 'request'
+request = require './request'
 PlatformAPI = require 'resin-platform-api/request'
 
 PLATFORM_ENDPOINT = url.resolve(config.apiEndpoint, '/ewa/')
@@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ module.exports = ->
 		console.log('Posting to the API..')
 		userConfig.csr = keys.csr
 		userConfig.uuid = uuid
-		return request(
-			method: 'POST'
+		return request.postAsync(
 			url: url.resolve(config.apiEndpoint, 'sign_certificate?apikey=' + userConfig.apiKey)
 			json: userConfig
 		)

src/docker-utils.coffee

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ es = require 'event-stream'
 _ = require 'lodash'
 knex = require './db'
 
-request = Promise.promisify(require 'request')
+request = require './request'
 
 docker = Promise.promisifyAll(new Docker(socketPath: config.dockerSocket))
 # Hack dockerode to promisify internal classes' prototypes
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ do ->
 
 	# Get the id of an image on a given registry and tag.
 	exports.getImageId = getImageId = (registry, imageName, tag='latest') ->
-		request("http://#{registry}/v1/repositories/#{imageName}/tags")
+		request.getAsync("http://#{registry}/v1/repositories/#{imageName}/tags")
 		.spread (res, data) ->
 			if res.statusCode == 404
 				throw new Error("No such image #{imageName} on registry #{registry}")
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ do ->
 
 	# Return the ids of the layers of an image.
 	exports.getImageHistory = getImageHistory = (registry, imageId) ->
-		request("http://#{registry}/v1/images/#{imageId}/ancestry")
+		request.getAsync("http://#{registry}/v1/images/#{imageId}/ancestry")
 		.spread (res, data) ->
 			if res.statusCode >= 400
 				throw new Error("Failed to get image ancestry of #{imageId} from #{registry}. Status code: #{res.statusCode}")
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ do ->
 		.then (exists) ->
 			if exists
 				return 0
-			request("http://#{registry}/v1/images/#{imageId}/json")
+			request.getAsync("http://#{registry}/v1/images/#{imageId}/json")
 			.spread (res, data) ->
 				if res.statusCode >= 400
 					throw new Error("Failed to get image download size of #{imageId} from #{registry}. Status code: #{res.statusCode}")

src/request.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+request = require 'request'
+Promise = require 'bluebird'
+
+request = request.defaults
+	gzip: true
+
+module.exports = Promise.promisifyAll(request)

src/utils.coffee

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ _ = require 'lodash'
 fs = Promise.promisifyAll require 'fs'
 config = require './config'
 mixpanel = require 'mixpanel'
-request = Promise.promisifyAll require 'request'
+request = require './request'
 
 # Parses package.json and returns resin-supervisor's version
 exports.supervisorVersion = require('../package.json').version