Text compression for HTTP with POST options

Question

I am writing client software that initiates an HTTP request with a large block of text (actually a JSON object) as a POST parameter. I want to compress this text before sending and unpacking the text on the server.

Gzip produces binary that I cannot send as a POST parameter, I think.

What are the options / algorithms for compressing text and sending it to a web server?

Edit: will this be a GZIP option and then BASE64 encode the binary data?

Answer 1

Why don't you just use standard gzip HTTP compression ?

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Answer 2

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