diff -urN ./Pound-2.7a/config.c ./Pound-2.7a-no-compression/config.c
--- ./Pound-2.7a/config.c	2012-04-09 15:37:26.000000000 +0200
+++ ./Pound-2.7a-no-compression/config.c	2013-03-19 22:30:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@
             SSL_CTX_set_verify(res->ctx, SSL_VERIFY_NONE, NULL);
             SSL_CTX_set_mode(res->ctx, SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY);
             SSL_CTX_set_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_ALL);
+#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION
+            SSL_CTX_set_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION);
+#endif
             SSL_CTX_clear_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION);
             SSL_CTX_clear_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT);
             sprintf(lin, "%d-Pound-%ld", getpid(), random());
@@ -362,6 +365,9 @@
             SSL_CTX_set_verify(res->ctx, SSL_VERIFY_NONE, NULL);
             SSL_CTX_set_mode(res->ctx, SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY);
             SSL_CTX_set_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_ALL);
+#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION
+            SSL_CTX_set_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION);
+#endif
             SSL_CTX_clear_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION);
             SSL_CTX_clear_options(res->ctx, SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT);
             sprintf(lin, "%d-Pound-%ld", getpid(), random());
@@ -902,6 +908,9 @@
     POUND_CTX           *pc;
 
     ssl_op_enable = SSL_OP_ALL;
+#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION
+    ssl_op_enable |= SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION;
+#endif
     ssl_op_disable = SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION | SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT;
 
     if((res = (LISTENER *)malloc(sizeof(LISTENER))) == NULL)
diff -urN ./Pound-2.7a/pound.c ./Pound-2.7a-no-compression/pound.c
--- ./Pound-2.7a/pound.c	2012-04-09 15:37:26.000000000 +0200
+++ ./Pound-2.7a-no-compression/pound.c	2013-03-19 22:31:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -267,6 +267,23 @@
     CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(l_lock);
     init_timer();
 
+    /* Disable SSL Compression for OpenSSL pre-1.0.  1.0 is handled with an option in config.c */
+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x00907000L
+#ifndef SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION
+    {
+      int i,n;
+      STACK_OF(SSL_COMP) *ssl_comp_methods;
+
+      ssl_comp_methods = SSL_COMP_get_compression_methods();
+      n = sk_SSL_COMP_num(ssl_comp_methods);
+
+      for(i=n-1; i>=0; i--) {
+        sk_SSL_COMP_delete(ssl_comp_methods, i);
+      }
+    }
+#endif
+#endif
+
     /* prepare regular expressions */
     if(regcomp(&HEADER, "^([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+.^_`|~-]+):[ \t]*(.*)[ \t]*$", REG_ICASE | REG_NEWLINE | REG_EXTENDED)
     || regcomp(&CHUNK_HEAD, "^([0-9a-f]+).*$", REG_ICASE | REG_NEWLINE | REG_EXTENDED)