fix: Disable content encoding for pushgateway delete requests (#551)

Author: vpalmisano

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Disable custom content encoding for pushgateway delete requests in order to
+  avoid failures from the server when using `Content-Encoding: gzip` header.
 - Refactor `escapeString` helper in `lib/registry.js` to improve performance and
   avoid an unnecessarily complex regex.
 

lib/pushgateway.js

@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ async function useGateway(method, job, groupings) {
 	});
 
 	return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+		if (method === 'DELETE' && options.headers) {
+			delete options.headers['Content-Encoding'];
+		}
 		const req = httpModule.request(options, resp => {
 			let body = '';
 			resp.setEncoding('utf8');