diff --git a/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactory.java b/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactory.java
index d678145c8..ebb376db9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactory.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import com.github.luben.zstd.ZstdInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.PushbackInputStream;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import net.snowflake.common.core.SqlState;
 import org.apache.http.Header;
@@ -16,16 +15,16 @@ class CompressedStreamFactory {
 
   private static final int STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE = MB;
 
+  /**
+   * Determine the format of the response, if it is not either plain text or gzip, raise an error.
+   */
   public InputStream createBasedOnEncodingHeader(InputStream is, Header encoding)
       throws IOException, SnowflakeSQLException {
-    InputStream inputStream = is; // Determine the format of the response, if it is not
-    // either plain text or gzip, raise an error.
     if (encoding != null) {
       if (GZIP.name().equalsIgnoreCase(encoding.getValue())) {
-        /* specify buffer size for GZIPInputStream */
-        inputStream = new GZIPInputStream(is, STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE);
+        return new GZIPInputStream(is, STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE);
       } else if (ZSTD.name().equalsIgnoreCase(encoding.getValue())) {
-        inputStream = new ZstdInputStream(is);
+        return new ZstdInputStream(is);
       } else {
         throw new SnowflakeSQLException(
             SqlState.INTERNAL_ERROR,
@@ -33,22 +32,7 @@ public InputStream createBasedOnEncodingHeader(InputStream is, Header encoding)
             "Exception: unexpected compression got " + encoding.getValue());
       }
     } else {
-      inputStream = detectGzipAndGetStream(is);
-    }
-
-    return inputStream;
-  }
-
-  private InputStream detectGzipAndGetStream(InputStream is) throws IOException {
-    PushbackInputStream pb = new PushbackInputStream(is, 2);
-    byte[] signature = new byte[2];
-    int len = pb.read(signature);
-    pb.unread(signature, 0, len);
-    // https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952
-    if (signature[0] == (byte) 0x1f && signature[1] == (byte) 0x8b) {
-      return new GZIPInputStream(pb);
-    } else {
-      return pb;
+      return DefaultResultStreamProvider.detectGzipAndGetStream(is);
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/DefaultResultStreamProvider.java b/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/DefaultResultStreamProvider.java
index cb4d2e0ed..e7a1e8a0c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/DefaultResultStreamProvider.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/DefaultResultStreamProvider.java
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.PushbackInputStream;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import net.snowflake.client.core.ExecTimeTelemetryData;
 import net.snowflake.client.core.HttpUtil;
 import net.snowflake.client.log.ArgSupplier;
@@ -145,4 +147,17 @@ else if (context.getQrmk() != null) {
         response);
     return response;
   }
+
+  public static InputStream detectGzipAndGetStream(InputStream is) throws IOException {
+    PushbackInputStream pb = new PushbackInputStream(is, 2);
+    byte[] signature = new byte[2];
+    int len = pb.read(signature);
+    pb.unread(signature, 0, len);
+    // https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952
+    if (signature[0] == (byte) 0x1f && signature[1] == (byte) 0x8b) {
+      return new GZIPInputStream(pb);
+    } else {
+      return pb;
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactoryTest.java b/src/test/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactoryTest.java
index e34528cc1..86eb5764a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactoryTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/net/snowflake/client/jdbc/CompressedStreamFactoryTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package net.snowflake.client.jdbc;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import com.github.luben.zstd.ZstdInputStream;
 import com.github.luben.zstd.ZstdOutputStream;
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.http.Header;
 import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -42,16 +44,8 @@ public void testDetectContentEncodingAndGetInputStream_Gzip() throws Exception {
     InputStream resultStream = factory.createBasedOnEncodingHeader(gzipStream, encodingHeader);
 
     // Decompress and validate the data matches original
-    ByteArrayOutputStream decompressedOutput = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
-    int bytesRead;
-    try (GZIPInputStream gzipInputStream = (GZIPInputStream) resultStream) {
-      while ((bytesRead = gzipInputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-        decompressedOutput.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
-      }
-    }
-    String decompressedData = new String(decompressedOutput.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-
+    assertTrue(resultStream instanceof GZIPInputStream);
+    String decompressedData = IOUtils.toString(resultStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
     assertEquals(originalData, decompressedData);
   }
 
@@ -79,16 +73,8 @@ public void testDetectContentEncodingAndGetInputStream_Zstd() throws Exception {
     InputStream resultStream = factory.createBasedOnEncodingHeader(zstdStream, encodingHeader);
 
     // Decompress and validate the data matches original
-    ByteArrayOutputStream decompressedOutput = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
-    int bytesRead;
-    try (ZstdInputStream zstdInputStream = (ZstdInputStream) resultStream) {
-      while ((bytesRead = zstdInputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-        decompressedOutput.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
-      }
-    }
-    String decompressedData = new String(decompressedOutput.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-
+    assertTrue(resultStream instanceof ZstdInputStream);
+    String decompressedData = IOUtils.toString(resultStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
     assertEquals(originalData, decompressedData);
   }
 }