GZip compression on HTTP Request with Tomcat

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I'm new to using Tomcat so perhaps I'm missing something. In the server.xml it looks as though it is possible to enable GZip compression for HTTP Responses from the server to the client. However in my application, there are large chunks of XML data being sent from the client to the server. Is there a way to enable GZip compression in tomcat so that my client sends the data compressed and it is automatically decompressed on the server side? Thanks.

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What kind of client are you talking about? Is it just a web browser? – Martin Dale Lyness
is your client sending the HTTP header "Accept-Encoding: gzip" ? Could you show a trace of the request response being sent over the wire? – beny23

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