Fix multirequest API in pycurl_manager to support parameters encoding and properly handle gzip responses
**Impact of the bug**
We need to fix multirequest API in pycurl_manager to support input parameter encoding and properly handle gzip HTTP responses

**Describe the bug**
The current version of multirequest API in pycurl_manager has two bugs:
- it does not encode input HTTP request parameters due to missing encode parameter in API
- it does not properly handle gzip HTTP response from server which provides it, e.g. DBS

**How to reproduce it**
I tested the following code which reveals these issues;
```
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import time
from WMCore.Services.pycurl_manager import RequestHandler

def blockLumis(blocks):
    mgr = RequestHandler()
    ckey = os.getenv('X509_USER_KEY')
    cert = os.getenv('X509_USER_CERT')
    headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'}
    furl = 'https://cmsweb-prod.cern.ch/dbs/prod/global/DBSReader/filelumis'
    pairs = set()
    for blk in blocks:
        params = {'block_name': blk}
        data = mgr.getdata(furl, params=params, headers=headers, ckey=ckey, cert=cert, encode=True, decode=True)
        for row in data:
            pair = (row['lumi_section_num'], row['run_num'])
            pairs.add(pair)
    return len(pairs)

def concurrentBlockLumis(blocks):
    mgr = RequestHandler()
    pairs = set()
    ckey = os.getenv('X509_USER_KEY')
    cert = os.getenv('X509_USER_CERT')
    headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'}
    url = 'https://cmsweb-prod.cern.ch/dbs/prod/global/DBSReader/filelumis'
    parray = []
    for blk in blocks:
        params = {'block_name': blk}
        parray.append(params)
    data = mgr.multirequest(url, parray, headers=headers, ckey=ckey, cert=cert, encode=True)
    for row in data:
        pair = (row['lumi_section_num'], row['run_num'])
        pairs.add(pair)
    return len(pairs)


blocks = [
    '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAOD
SIM#471e5596-af04-4423-a850-5ef9091f154f',
    '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAOD
SIM#6eb03689-167a-472f-8b09-f4bfadad6a8a',
    '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAOD
SIM#b8cdec8f-b664-49a6-ab2d-bb2a89893581',
    '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAOD
SIM#ff78bb73-0e8c-41cb-9e51-381cfbdf15e2'
]

time0 = time.time()
res = blockLumis(blocks)
print(res, "in ", time.time()-time0, " seconds")
time0 = time.time()
res = concurrentBlockLumis(blocks)
print(res, "in ", time.time()-time0, " seconds")
```

**Expected behavior**
`encode=False` should be added to multirequest API and passed into internal function calls. And, multirequest API should properly handle gzip'ed content from upstream server.

**Additional context and error message**

diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py b/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py
index 149201f42..e47a4c8a3 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py
@@ -63,6 +63,27 @@ from Utils.PortForward import portForward, PortForward
 from Utils.TokenManager import TokenManager
 
 
+def getException(url, params, headers, header, data):
+    """
+    Return HTTP exception for a given set of parameters:
+    :param url: string
+    :param params: dict
+    :param headers: dict
+    :param header: ResponseHeader
+    :param data: HTTP body
+    """
+    msg = 'url=%s, code=%s, reason=%s, headers=%s, result=%s' \\
+          % (url, header.status, header.reason, header.header, data)
+    exc = http.client.HTTPException(msg)
+    setattr(exc, 'req_data', params)
+    setattr(exc, 'req_headers', headers)
+    setattr(exc, 'url', url)
+    setattr(exc, 'result', data)
+    setattr(exc, 'status', header.status)
+    setattr(exc, 'reason', header.reason)
+    setattr(exc, 'headers', header.header)
+    return exc
+
 def decompress(body, headers):
     """
     Helper function to decompress given body if HTTP headers contains gzip encoding
@@ -326,16 +347,7 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
             else:
                 data = self.parse_body(data, decode)
         else:
-            msg = 'url=%s, code=%s, reason=%s, headers=%s, result=%s' \\
-                  % (url, header.status, header.reason, header.header, data)
-            exc = http.client.HTTPException(msg)
-            setattr(exc, 'req_data', params)
-            setattr(exc, 'req_headers', headers)
-            setattr(exc, 'url', url)
-            setattr(exc, 'result', data)
-            setattr(exc, 'status', header.status)
-            setattr(exc, 'reason', header.reason)
-            setattr(exc, 'headers', header.header)
+            exc = getException(url, params, headers, header, data)
             bbuf.flush()
             hbuf.flush()
             raise exc
@@ -361,15 +373,16 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
         return header
 
     @portForward(8443)
-    def multirequest(self, url, parray, headers=None,
-                     ckey=None, cert=None, verbose=None, cookie=None):
+    def multirequest(self, url, parray, headers=None, verb='GET',
+                     ckey=None, cert=None, verbose=None, cookie=None,
+                     encode=False, decode=False):
         """Fetch data for given set of parameters"""
         multi = pycurl.CurlMulti()
         for params in parray:
             curl = pycurl.Curl()
             bbuf, hbuf = \\
                 self.set_opts(curl, url, params, headers, ckey=ckey, cert=cert,
-                              verbose=verbose, cookie=cookie)
+                              verbose=verbose, cookie=cookie, encode=encode)
             multi.add_handle(curl)
             while True:
                 ret, num_handles = multi.perform()
@@ -385,8 +398,20 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
                         break
             dummyNumq, response, dummyErr = multi.info_read()
             for _respItem in response:
-                data = decodeBytesToUnicode(bbuf.getvalue())
-                data = json.loads(data)
+                header = self.parse_header(hbuf.getvalue())
+                data = bbuf.getvalue()
+                data = decompress(data, header.header)
+                data = decodeBytesToUnicode(data)
+                if header.status < 300:
+                    if verb == 'HEAD':
+                        data = ''
+                    else:
+                        data = self.parse_body(data, decode)
+                else:
+                    exc = getException(url, params, headers, header, data)
+                    bbuf.flush()
+                    hbuf.flush()
+                    raise exc
                 if isinstance(data, dict):
                     data.update(params)
                     yield data
diff --git a/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py b/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py
index 8b1db7b30..46232009a 100644
--- a/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py
+++ b/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py
@@ -288,6 +288,29 @@ class PyCurlManager(unittest.TestCase):
         obj = ResponseHeader(response)
         self.assertEqual(obj.status, 400)
 
+    def testMultirequest(self):
+        """
+        Test multirequest function
+        """
+        tfile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
+        url = "https://cmsweb-prod.cern.ch/dbs/prod/global/DBSReader/filelumis"
+        blocks = [
+            '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAODSIM#471e5596-af04-4423-a850-5ef9091f154f',
+            '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAODSIM#6eb03689-167a-472f-8b09-f4bfadad6a8a',
+            '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAODSIM#b8cdec8f-b664-49a6-ab2d-bb2a89893581',
+            '/LQToDEle_M-4000_single_TuneCP2_13TeV-madgraph-pythia8/RunIISummer20UL17MiniAODv2-106X_mc2017_realistic_v9-v1/MINIAODSIM#ff78bb73-0e8c-41cb-9e51-381cfbdf15e2'
+        ]
+        cern_sso_cookie(url, tfile.name, self.cert, self.ckey)
+        parray = [{'block_name':b} for b in blocks]
+        headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'}
+        cookie = {url: tfile.name}
+        mgr = RequestHandler()
+        data = mgr.multirequest(url, parray, headers=headers, ckey=self.ckey, cert=self.cert, cookie=cookie, encode=True, decode=True)
+        pairs = set()
+        for row in data:
+            pair = (row['lumi_section_num'], row['run_num'])
+            pairs.add(pair)
+        self.assertTrue(len(pairs), 100)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
['test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py', 'src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py']