diff --git a/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/async/ContentCompressionAsyncExec.java b/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/async/ContentCompressionAsyncExec.java
index cae264a0d3..d8c9a6aa4b 100644
--- a/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/async/ContentCompressionAsyncExec.java
+++ b/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/async/ContentCompressionAsyncExec.java
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.async.methods.InflatingZstdDataConsumer;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.entity.compress.ContentCoding;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.Brotli4jRuntime;
-import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.ZstdRuntime;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.ContentCodingSupport;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.ZstdRuntime;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.protocol.HttpClientContext;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.annotation.Contract;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.annotation.Internal;
@@ -150,9 +150,6 @@ public AsyncDataConsumer handleResponse(final HttpResponse rsp,
                             throw new HttpException("Unsupported Content-Encoding: " + codec);
                         }
                     }
-                    rsp.removeHeaders(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_ENCODING);
-                    rsp.removeHeaders(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_LENGTH);
-                    rsp.removeHeaders(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_MD5);
                     return downstream;
                 }
 
diff --git a/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/classic/ContentCompressionExec.java b/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/classic/ContentCompressionExec.java
index e3dca2d090..f4da426ecb 100644
--- a/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/classic/ContentCompressionExec.java
+++ b/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/classic/ContentCompressionExec.java
@@ -138,9 +138,6 @@ public ClassicHttpResponse execute(
                         throw new HttpException("Unsupported Content-Encoding: " + codec);
                     }
                 }
-                response.removeHeaders(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_LENGTH);
-                response.removeHeaders(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_ENCODING);
-                response.removeHeaders(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_MD5);
             }
         }
         return response;