diff --git a/src/header/common/content_encoding.rs b/src/header/common/content_encoding.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e56c388
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/header/common/content_encoding.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+use header::Encoding;
+
+/// The `Content-Encoding` header.
+///
+/// This header describes the encoding of the message body. It can be
+/// comma-separated, including multiple encodings.
+///
+/// ```notrust
+/// Content-Encoding: gzip
+/// ```
+#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Debug)]
+pub struct ContentEncoding(pub Vec<Encoding>);
+
+impl_list_header!(ContentEncoding,
+                  "Content-Encoding",
+                  Vec<Encoding>);
+
+bench_header!(single, ContentEncoding, { vec![b"gzip".to_vec()] });
+bench_header!(multiple, ContentEncoding, { vec![b"gzip, deflate".to_vec()] });
diff --git a/src/header/common/mod.rs b/src/header/common/mod.rs
index e0a423e3..7a374b8d 100644
--- a/src/header/common/mod.rs
+++ b/src/header/common/mod.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ pub use self::authorization::{Authorization, Scheme, Basic};
 pub use self::cache_control::{CacheControl, CacheDirective};
 pub use self::connection::{Connection, ConnectionOption};
 pub use self::content_length::ContentLength;
+pub use self::content_encoding::ContentEncoding;
 pub use self::content_type::ContentType;
 pub use self::cookie::Cookie;
 pub use self::date::Date;
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ mod authorization;
 mod cache_control;
 mod cookie;
 mod connection;
+mod content_encoding;
 mod content_length;
 mod content_type;
 mod date;