code: private HttpResponse executeCurrentRequestWithoutGZip(HttpRequest request) throws IOException {
      // method override for non-POST verbs
      new MethodOverride().intercept(request);
      // don't throw an exception so we can let a custom Google exception be thrown
      request.setThrowExceptionOnExecuteError(false);
      // execute the request
      HttpResponse response = request.execute();
      return response;
    }
docs: Executes the current request with some minimal common code.
  
  @param request current request
  @return HTTP response