diff --git a/src/node/index.js b/src/node/index.js
index bfb01aa73..468da2c88 100644
--- a/src/node/index.js
+++ b/src/node/index.js
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ Request.prototype._end = function () {
         const form = formidable();
         parser = form.parse.bind(form);
         buffer = true;
-      } else if (isImageOrVideo(mime)) {
+      } else if (isBinary(mime)) {
         parser = exports.parse.image;
         buffer = true; // For backwards-compatibility buffering default is ad-hoc MIME-dependent
       } else if (exports.parse[mime]) {
@@ -1074,7 +1074,6 @@ Request.prototype._end = function () {
       } else if (type === 'text') {
         parser = exports.parse.text;
         buffer = buffer !== false;
-
         // everyone wants their own white-labeled json
       } else if (isJSON(mime)) {
         parser = exports.parse['application/json'];
@@ -1345,11 +1344,22 @@ function isText(mime) {
   return type === 'text' || subtype === 'x-www-form-urlencoded';
 }
 
-function isImageOrVideo(mime) {
-  let type = mime.split('/')[0];
-  if (type) type = type.toLowerCase().trim();
-
-  return type === 'image' || type === 'video';
+// This is not a catchall, but a start. It might be useful
+// in the long run to have file that includes all binary
+// content types from https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
+function isBinary(mime) {
+  let [ registry, name ] = mime.split('/');
+  if (registry) registry = registry.toLowerCase().trim();
+  if (name) name = name.toLowerCase().trim();
+  return [
+    'audio',
+    'font',
+    'image',
+    'video' 
+  ].includes(registry) || [
+    'gz',
+    'gzip',
+  ].includes(name);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/node/parsers/index.js b/src/node/parsers/index.js
index 08c9b95c0..7fb67af31 100644
--- a/src/node/parsers/index.js
+++ b/src/node/parsers/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 exports['application/x-www-form-urlencoded'] = require('./urlencoded');
 exports['application/json'] = require('./json');
 exports.text = require('./text');
+exports['application/json-seq'] = exports.text;
 
 const binary = require('./image');
 
diff --git a/test/node/exports.js b/test/node/exports.js
index 37a954b44..62c5230ae 100644
--- a/test/node/exports.js
+++ b/test/node/exports.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ describe('exports', () => {
       'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
       'application/json',
       'text',
+      'application/json-seq',
       'application/octet-stream',
       'application/pdf',
       'image'
diff --git a/test/node/fixtures/test.aac b/test/node/fixtures/test.aac
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b91d23e7
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/node/fixtures/test.aac differ
diff --git a/test/request.js b/test/request.js
index 29f10dffd..e57e58cd7 100644
--- a/test/request.js
+++ b/test/request.js
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+
 const assert = require('assert');
 const getSetup = require('./support/setup');
 
 const request = require('./support/client');
+const binData = fs.readFileSync(`${__dirname}/node/fixtures/test.aac`);
 
 describe('request', function () {
   let setup;
@@ -630,6 +633,21 @@ describe('request', function () {
       });
   });
 
+  it('GET binary data', (next) => {
+    request
+      .get(`${uri}/binary-data`)
+      .buffer()
+      .end((error, res) => {
+        try {
+          assert.ifError(error);
+          assert.deepEqual(res.body, binData);
+          next();
+        } catch (err) {
+          next(err);
+        }
+      });
+  });
+
   it('GET x-www-form-urlencoded', (next) => {
     request.get(`${uri}/foo`).end((error, res) => {
       try {
diff --git a/test/support/server.js b/test/support/server.js
index 39e402999..1e5d3dda0 100644
--- a/test/support/server.js
+++ b/test/support/server.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
 let http = require('http');
 const multer = require('multer');
 const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
@@ -502,6 +503,12 @@ app.get('/image-as-octets', (request, res) => {
   serveImageWithType(res, 'application/octet-stream');
 });
 
+app.get('/binary-data', (request, res) => {
+  const binData = fs.readFileSync(`${__dirname}/../node/fixtures/test.aac`);
+  res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-type': 'audio/aac' });
+  res.end(binData, 'binary')
+});
+
 app.get('/chunked-json', (request, res) => {
   res.set('content-type', 'application/json');
   res.set('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked');