What header should be used for sending GZIP compressed JSON from Android Client to Server?

Question

This question is extension to the question here. I am using the code here reproduced below to GZIP compress a JSONObject.

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Answer 1

This answer shows you that you need to set a header indicating that you are sending data compressed:

HttpUriRequest request = new HttpGet(url);
request.addHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
// ...
httpClient.execute(request);

The answer also shows how to deal with the incoming compressed data.