diff --git a/modules/transports/core/nhttp/pom.xml b/modules/transports/core/nhttp/pom.xml
index 4afbf09119..5763eb1222 100644
--- a/modules/transports/core/nhttp/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/transports/core/nhttp/pom.xml
@@ -230,6 +230,10 @@
             <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.wso2.orbit.org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
diff --git a/modules/transports/core/nhttp/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/transport/passthru/util/DeferredMessageBuilder.java b/modules/transports/core/nhttp/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/transport/passthru/util/DeferredMessageBuilder.java
index 08e0c7e30a..dc3b21914e 100644
--- a/modules/transports/core/nhttp/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/transport/passthru/util/DeferredMessageBuilder.java
+++ b/modules/transports/core/nhttp/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/transport/passthru/util/DeferredMessageBuilder.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import org.apache.axis2.transport.http.*;
 import org.apache.axis2.util.JavaUtils;
 import org.apache.axis2.util.MessageProcessorSelector;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.brotli.BrotliCompressorInputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.PushbackInputStream;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -102,7 +104,7 @@ public OMElement getDocument(MessageContext msgCtx, InputStream in) throws
     	
 		String contentType = (String) msgCtx.getProperty(Constants.Configuration.CONTENT_TYPE);
 		String _contentType = getContentType(contentType, msgCtx);
-		in = HTTPTransportUtils.handleGZip(msgCtx, in);
+		in = handleContentEncoding(msgCtx, in);
 
 		AxisConfiguration configuration = msgCtx.getConfigurationContext().getAxisConfiguration();
 		Parameter useFallbackParameter =
@@ -306,4 +308,22 @@ public static String getContentType(String contentType, MessageContext msgContex
         }
         return type;
     }
+
+    private static InputStream handleContentEncoding(MessageContext msgContext, InputStream in) throws IOException {
+        if (checkContentEncodingMatches(msgContext, "br")) {
+            PushbackInputStream pushbackInputStream = new PushbackInputStream(in);
+            int bytesRead = pushbackInputStream.read();
+            if (bytesRead != -1) {
+                pushbackInputStream.unread(bytesRead);
+                return new BrotliCompressorInputStream(pushbackInputStream);
+            }
+        }
+        return HTTPTransportUtils.handleGZip(msgContext, in);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean checkContentEncodingMatches(MessageContext msgContext, String encoding) {
+        Map headers = (Map)msgContext.getProperty(MessageContext.TRANSPORT_HEADERS);
+        return headers != null && (encoding.equals(headers.get(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_ENCODING))
+                || encoding.equals(headers.get(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_ENCODING_LOWERCASE)));
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e95941e23d..aba198a211 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1445,6 +1445,11 @@
               <artifactId>swagger-parser</artifactId>
               <version>${swagger.parser.v3.version}</version>
           </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+              <groupId>org.wso2.orbit.org.apache.commons</groupId>
+              <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
+              <version>${commons-compress.orbit.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
       </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
     <reporting>
@@ -1676,6 +1681,7 @@
        <org.wso2.orbit.atlassian.oai.version>2.44.1.wso2v1</org.wso2.orbit.atlassian.oai.version>
        <swagger.parser.v3.version>2.1.37.wso2v1</swagger.parser.v3.version>
        <jaxen.version>2.0.0</jaxen.version>
+       <commons-compress.orbit.version>1.28.0.wso2v2</commons-compress.orbit.version>
    </properties>
    <developers>
       <!-- If you are a committer and your name is not listed here, please include/edit -->