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

For python 3:

from io import BytesIO
import gzip

def zip_payload(payload: str) -> bytes:
    btsio = BytesIO()
    g = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=btsio, mode='w')
    g.write(bytes(payload, 'utf8'))
    g.close()
    return btsio.getvalue()

headers = {
    'Content-Encoding': 'gzip'
}
zipped_payload = zip_payload(payload)
requests.post(url, zipped_payload, headers=headers)