HTTP request compression

• Compress http body with Gzip

• Content-Encoding: gzip

• Apache supports Input Decompression in mod_deflate: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html#enable

• https://blog.art-of-coding.eu/compressed-http-requests/ mentions some bugs.

• NginX: thread1 and thread2 indicate that this is not supported by NginX.

Read more

• HTTP response compression and related security exploits

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153484/gzip-post-request-with-httpclient-in-java

• http://serverfault.com/questions/56700/is-it-possible-to-enable-http-compression-for-requests

• http://www.agent31.eu/2007/07/compressed-http.html

• https://blog.art-of-coding.eu/compressed-http-requests/