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 can't get this to work, but you might be able to insert the gzip data into a prepared request:

#UNPROVEN
r=requests.Request('POST', 'http://httpbin.org/post', data={"hello":"goodbye"})
p=r.prepare()
s=StringIO.StringIO()
g=gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=s,mode='w')
g.write(p.body)
g.close()
p.body=s.getvalue()
p.headers['content-encoding']='gzip'
p.headers['content-length'] = str(len(p.body))  # Not sure about this
r=requests.Session().send(p)