Can I POST data with python requests lib with http-gzip or deflate compression?

Question

I use the request-module of python 2.7 to post a bigger chunk of data to a service I can\'t change. Since the data is mostly text, it is large but would compress quite well. The

Answer 1

I've tested the solution proposed by Robᵩ with some modifications and it works.

PSEUDOCODE (sorry I've extrapolated it from my code so I had to cut out some parts and haven't tested, anyway you can get your idea)

additional_headers['content-encoding'] = 'gzip'
s = StringIO.StringIO()
g = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=s, mode='w')
g.write(json_body)
g.close()
gzipped_body = s.getvalue()
request_body = gzipped_body

r = requests.post(endpoint_url, data=request_body, headers=additional_headers)