JSON REST Service: Content-Encoding: gzip

Question

I am writing some code to interface with a service that I do not have yet, so I am writing a simulator to attempt to de-risk some of the problems I might run into when I get

Answer 1

You're correct. Just Gzip the JSON string and return it.

Best reference for any REST implementation is the HTTP/1.1 RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

Answer 2

In short: yes, it's as simple as that. The response body just needs to be the gzip-compressed version of the normal response body.

This question may have some useful information for setting up your service.