diff --git a/zipkin-junit/src/main/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRule.java b/zipkin-junit/src/main/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRule.java
index 44e3a159cb0..07888a87703 100644
--- a/zipkin-junit/src/main/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRule.java
+++ b/zipkin-junit/src/main/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRule.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 import okhttp3.mockwebserver.MockResponse;
 import okhttp3.mockwebserver.MockWebServer;
 import okhttp3.mockwebserver.RecordedRequest;
+import okio.Buffer;
+import okio.GzipSink;
 import org.junit.rules.TestRule;
 import org.junit.runner.Description;
 import org.junit.runners.model.Statement;
@@ -51,7 +53,21 @@ public ZipkinRule() {
       public MockResponse dispatch(RecordedRequest request) throws InterruptedException {
         MockResponse maybeFailure = failureQueue.poll();
         if (maybeFailure != null) return maybeFailure;
-        return successDispatch.dispatch(request);
+        MockResponse result = successDispatch.dispatch(request);
+        String encoding = request.getHeaders().get("Accept-Encoding");
+        if (result.getBody() != null && encoding != null && encoding.contains("gzip")) {
+          try {
+            Buffer sink = new Buffer();
+            GzipSink gzipSink = new GzipSink(sink);
+            gzipSink.write(result.getBody(), result.getBody().size());
+            gzipSink.close();
+            result.setBody(sink);
+          } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new AssertionError(e);
+          }
+          result.setHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
+        }
+        return result;
       }
 
       @Override
diff --git a/zipkin-junit/src/test/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRuleTest.java b/zipkin-junit/src/test/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRuleTest.java
index f1b7adefb19..26a08cb60ae 100644
--- a/zipkin-junit/src/test/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRuleTest.java
+++ b/zipkin-junit/src/test/java/zipkin/junit/ZipkinRuleTest.java
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.ConnectException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
 import okhttp3.MediaType;
 import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
 import okhttp3.Request;
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@
 import zipkin.Codec;
 import zipkin.Endpoint;
 import zipkin.Span;
+import zipkin.internal.Util;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@@ -151,4 +154,27 @@ public void gzippedSpans_invalidIs400() throws IOException {
 
     assertThat(response.code()).isEqualTo(400);
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void readSpans_gzippedResponse() throws Exception {
+    char[] annotation2K = new char[2048];
+    Arrays.fill(annotation2K, 'a');
+
+    List<Span> trace = asList(new Span.Builder(span)
+        .addAnnotation(Annotation.create(ann.timestamp, new String(annotation2K), null)).build());
+
+    zipkin.storeSpans(trace);
+
+    Response response = client.newCall(new Request.Builder()
+            .url(zipkin.httpUrl() + "/api/v1/trace/" + span.traceId)
+            .addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip").build()
+    ).execute();
+
+    assertThat(response.code()).isEqualTo(200);
+    assertThat(response.body().contentLength()).isLessThan(annotation2K.length);
+
+    byte[] unzipped = Util.gunzip(response.body().bytes());
+
+    assertThat(Codec.JSON.readSpans(unzipped)).isEqualTo(trace);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/zipkin-server/src/main/resources/zipkin-server.yml b/zipkin-server/src/main/resources/zipkin-server.yml
index a06350c0fea..d18f3380014 100644
--- a/zipkin-server/src/main/resources/zipkin-server.yml
+++ b/zipkin-server/src/main/resources/zipkin-server.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ server:
   port: ${QUERY_PORT:9411}
   compression:
     enabled: true
+    # compresses any response over min-response-size (default is 2KiB)
+    mime-types: application/json
 spring:
   datasource:
     driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver