diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 6a6040c974..9b08a7f2d6 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ dev
---
- \[Short description of non-trivial change.\]
-- Requests Brotli compression, if either the `brotli` or `brotlicffi` package
- is installed.
**Dependencies**
diff --git a/docs/community/faq.rst b/docs/community/faq.rst
index 19732aedac..c0177719bd 100644
--- a/docs/community/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/community/faq.rst
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ Encoded Data?
Requests automatically decompresses gzip-encoded responses, and does
its best to decode response content to unicode when possible.
-When either the `brotli `_ or `brotlicffi `_
-package is installed, requests also decodes Brotli-encoded responses.
-
You can get direct access to the raw response (and even the socket),
if needed as well.
diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index b4649f00d5..0e2bcadfdc 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -128,9 +128,6 @@ You can also access the response body as bytes, for non-text requests::
The ``gzip`` and ``deflate`` transfer-encodings are automatically decoded for you.
-The ``br`` transfer-encoding is automatically decoded for you if a Brotli library
-like `brotli `_ or `brotlicffi `_ is installed.
-
For example, to create an image from binary data returned by a request, you can
use the following code::
diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index dbb02a0d79..6705c9a300 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
import warnings
import zipfile
from collections import OrderedDict
-from urllib3.util import make_headers
from .__version__ import __version__
from . import certs
@@ -42,11 +41,6 @@
DEFAULT_PORTS = {'http': 80, 'https': 443}
-# Ensure that ', ' is used to preserve previous delimiter behavior.
-DEFAULT_ACCEPT_ENCODING = ", ".join(
- re.split(r",\s*", make_headers(accept_encoding=True)["accept-encoding"])
-)
-
if sys.platform == 'win32':
# provide a proxy_bypass version on Windows without DNS lookups
@@ -841,7 +835,7 @@ def default_headers():
"""
return CaseInsensitiveDict({
'User-Agent': default_user_agent(),
- 'Accept-Encoding': DEFAULT_ACCEPT_ENCODING,
+ 'Accept-Encoding': ', '.join(('gzip', 'deflate')),
'Accept': '*/*',
'Connection': 'keep-alive',
})