diff --git a/src/app/api/basemap-tile/[...path]/route.ts b/src/app/api/basemap-tile/[...path]/route.ts
index 6009a13..bd5db19 100644
--- a/src/app/api/basemap-tile/[...path]/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/basemap-tile/[...path]/route.ts
@@ -70,12 +70,17 @@ export async function GET(
     return NextResponse.json({ error: "upstream_too_large" }, { status: 413 });
   }
 
+  // Buffer the body and re-emit. We deliberately drop upstream
+  // Content-Encoding + Content-Length: Node's fetch auto-decodes
+  // gzip/br responses, so forwarding the original encoding header makes
+  // the browser try to gunzip already-decoded bytes (or, worse, makes
+  // Next.js stream a Content-Length that doesn't match the decoded
+  // payload → HTTP/2 INTERNAL_ERROR mid-stream).
+  const body = await upstream.arrayBuffer();
+
   const headers = new Headers();
   const ct = upstream.headers.get("content-type");
   if (ct) headers.set("Content-Type", ct);
-  const ce = upstream.headers.get("content-encoding");
-  if (ce) headers.set("Content-Encoding", ce);
-  if (contentLength) headers.set("Content-Length", contentLength);
 
   // Tiles + sprites + glyphs are immutable per path (versioned). Cache
   // aggressively to keep architots out of the per-tile critical path.
@@ -84,5 +89,5 @@ export async function GET(
     "public, max-age=86400, stale-while-revalidate=604800, immutable",
   );
 
-  return new NextResponse(upstream.body, { status: 200, headers });
+  return new NextResponse(body, { status: 200, headers });
 }