diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra/View/NARInfo.pm b/src/lib/Hydra/View/NARInfo.pm
index 8bfd0592..00dd6a68 100644
--- a/src/lib/Hydra/View/NARInfo.pm
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra/View/NARInfo.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package Hydra::View::NARInfo;
 
 use strict;
 use base qw/Catalyst::View/;
-use Hydra::View::NixNAR;
 use File::Basename;
 use Nix::Store;
 
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ sub process {
     my $info;
     $info .= "StorePath: $storePath\n";
     $info .= "URL: nar/" . basename $storePath. "\n";
-    $info .= "Compression: " . file_compression $storePath . "\n";
+    $info .= "Compression: bzip2\n";
     $info .= "NarHash: $narHash\n";
     $info .= "NarSize: $narSize\n";
     $info .= "References: " . join(" ", map { basename $_ } @{$refs}) . "\n";
diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra/View/NixNAR.pm b/src/lib/Hydra/View/NixNAR.pm
index a403b42d..af1a5367 100644
--- a/src/lib/Hydra/View/NixNAR.pm
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra/View/NixNAR.pm
@@ -3,30 +3,16 @@ package Hydra::View::NixNAR;
 use strict;
 use base qw/Catalyst::View/;
 
-sub file_compression {
-    my ($file) = $@_;
-
-    if /\\.(gz|bz2|xz|lz|zip)/
-	return "none";
-    else
-	return "bzip2";
-}
-
 sub process {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
 
     my $storePath = $c->stash->{storePath};
-    my $compression = file_compression($storePath);
 
     $c->response->content_type('application/x-nix-archive'); # !!! check MIME type
-    $c->response->content_length(-s $storePath) if ($compression == "none");
 
     my $fh = new IO::Handle;
 
-    if ($compression == "none")
-	open $fh, "nix-store --dump '$storePath' |";
-    else
-	open $fh, "nix-store --dump '$storePath' | bzip2 |";
+    open $fh, "nix-store --dump '$storePath' | bzip2 |";
 
     $c->response->body($fh);