# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix double-decoding of compressed IdP auth responses

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where gzip-compressed responses from IdP/Portal endpoints were being decompressed twice, causing dashboard authentication failures. The fixes involve correctly requesting identity encoding and avoiding redundant decoding of response bodies.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #134839. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #134839 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #134222: Dashboard auth fails: httpx decompression error when Portal returns gzip-compressed response

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#134839: Portal dashboard login works again (revert the dashboard-auth half of #133938)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `plugins/dashboard_auth/_shared.py`, `plugins/dashboard_auth/self_hosted/__init__.py`, `tests/plugins/dashboard_auth/test_nous_provider.py`, `tests/plugins/dashboard_auth/test_self_hosted_provider.py`
- **#134225: fix(dashboard-auth): request identity encoding from IdP endpoints**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `8a33891bdd`, `#134839`, `#133938`, `#55121`
- **#134262: fix(dashboard-auth): don't decode IdP response bodies twice**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#134086`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #134839 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-08`.