diff --git a/awc/CHANGES.md b/awc/CHANGES.md
index 8babba11..0b02b3cf 100644
--- a/awc/CHANGES.md
+++ b/awc/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 # Changes
 
 ## Unreleased - 2020-xx-xx
+### Changed
 * Upgrade `base64` to `0.13`.
 
+### Fixed
+* Use `Accept-Encoding: identity` instead of `Accept-Encoding: br` when no compression feature is enabled [#1737]
+
+[#1737]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/1737
+
+
 ## 2.0.0 - 2020-09-11
 ### Changed
 * `Client::build` was renamed to `Client::builder`.
diff --git a/awc/Cargo.toml b/awc/Cargo.toml
index b8cf53e0..b7d8b0a2 100644
--- a/awc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/awc/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ actix-rt = "1.0.0"
 
 base64 = "0.13"
 bytes = "0.5.3"
+cfg-if = "1.0"
 derive_more = "0.99.2"
 futures-core = { version = "0.3.5", default-features = false }
 log =" 0.4"
diff --git a/awc/src/request.rs b/awc/src/request.rs
index dcada2c6..11e1da6a 100644
--- a/awc/src/request.rs
+++ b/awc/src/request.rs
@@ -21,10 +21,15 @@ use crate::frozen::FrozenClientRequest;
 use crate::sender::{PrepForSendingError, RequestSender, SendClientRequest};
 use crate::ClientConfig;
 
-#[cfg(any(feature = "flate2-zlib", feature = "flate2-rust"))]
-const HTTPS_ENCODING: &str = "br, gzip, deflate";
-#[cfg(not(any(feature = "flate2-zlib", feature = "flate2-rust")))]
-const HTTPS_ENCODING: &str = "br";
+cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+    if #[cfg(any(feature = "flate2-zlib", feature = "flate2-rust"))] {
+        const HTTPS_ENCODING: &str = "br, gzip, deflate";
+    } else if #[cfg(feature = "compress")] {
+        const HTTPS_ENCODING: &str = "br";
+    } else {
+        const HTTPS_ENCODING: &str = "identity";
+    }
+}
 
 /// An HTTP Client request builder
 ///