getFile method can download compressed files via compressed argument.

        return cls.readSetting("Proxy", "http", cls.default['http_proxy'])

    @classmethod

    def getFile(cls, getfile):

    def getFile(cls, getfile, compressed=False):

        if cls.getProxy():

            proxy = req.ProxyHandler({'http': cls.getProxy(), 'https': cls.getProxy()})

            auth = req.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()

            opener = req.build_opener(proxy, auth, req.HTTPHandler)

            req.install_opener(opener)

        if not compressed:

            return req.urlopen(getfile)

        else:

            response = req.urlopen(getfile + '.gz')

            if 'gzip' in response.info().get('Content-Type'):

                buf = BytesIO(response.read())

            response = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)

        return response

                data = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)

            return (data, response)