diff --git a/compress.go b/compress.go
index 64e825a..1e95f1c 100644
--- a/compress.go
+++ b/compress.go
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ func (cw *compressResponseWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
 	return cw.compressor.Write(b)
 }
 
+func (cw *compressResponseWriter) ReadFrom(r io.Reader) (int64, error) {
+	return io.Copy(cw.compressor, r)
+}
+
 type flusher interface {
 	Flush() error
 }
@@ -129,6 +133,9 @@ func CompressHandlerLevel(h http.Handler, level int) http.Handler {
 			Flush: func(httpsnoop.FlushFunc) httpsnoop.FlushFunc {
 				return cw.Flush
 			},
+			ReadFrom: func(rff httpsnoop.ReadFromFunc) httpsnoop.ReadFromFunc {
+				return cw.ReadFrom
+			},
 		})
 
 		h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
diff --git a/compress_test.go b/compress_test.go
index adc2b8b..b9457cd 100644
--- a/compress_test.go
+++ b/compress_test.go
@@ -6,10 +6,16 @@ package handlers
 
 import (
 	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
+	"compress/gzip"
 	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/url"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -158,6 +164,54 @@ func TestCompressHandlerGzipDeflate(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Make sure we can compress and serve an *os.File properly. We need
+// to use a real http server to trigger the net/http sendfile special
+// case.
+func TestCompressFile(t *testing.T) {
+	dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "gorilla_compress")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
+
+	err = ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "hello.txt"), []byte("hello"), 0644)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	s := httptest.NewServer(CompressHandler(http.FileServer(http.Dir(dir))))
+	defer s.Close()
+
+	url := &url.URL{Scheme: "http", Host: s.Listener.Addr().String(), Path: "/hello.txt"}
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url.String(), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	req.Header.Set(acceptEncoding, "gzip")
+	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if res.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("expected OK, got %q", res.Status)
+	}
+
+	var got bytes.Buffer
+	gr, err := gzip.NewReader(res.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_, err = io.Copy(&got, gr)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if got.String() != "hello" {
+		t.Errorf("expected hello, got %q", got.String())
+	}
+}
+
 type fullyFeaturedResponseWriter struct{}
 
 // Header/Write/WriteHeader implement the http.ResponseWriter interface.