diff --git a/.github/workflows/markdown-link-check.yml b/.github/workflows/markdown-link-check.yml
index 93ccabb29..8dfb107f0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/markdown-link-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/markdown-link-check.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - "**/*.md"
+      - ".markdown-link-check.json"
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -19,4 +20,4 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install markdown-link-check
         run: npm i -g markdown-link-check
       - name: Run markdown-link-check on MD files
-        run: find . -name "*.md" | xargs -n 1 markdown-link-check -q
+        run: find . -name "*.md" | xargs -n 1 markdown-link-check -c markdown_link_check_config.json -q
diff --git a/markdown_link_check_config.json b/markdown_link_check_config.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b8b1d40f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/markdown_link_check_config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "httpHeaders": [
+    {
+      "urls": [
+        "https://docs.github.com"
+      ],
+      "headers": {
+        "Accept-Encoding": "br, gzip, deflate"
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}