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

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 server would accept gzip- or deflate-encoding, however I do not know how to instruct requests to do a POST and encode the data correctly automatically.

Is there a minimal example available, that shows how this is possible?

Solution 
  • # Works if backend supports gzip

additional_headers['content-encoding'] = 'gzip'
request_body = zlib.compress(json.dumps(post_data))
r = requests.post('http://post.example.url', data=request_body, headers=additional_headers)