var request = require('request'), zlib = require('zlib');

var headers = {
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip' /* Request gzip data response */
};

request({url:'http://localhost:8000/', 'headers': headers})
    .pipe(zlib.createGunzip()) /* Decompress gzip data */
    .pipe(process.stdout);

import http.client
import json

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('www.httpbin.org')

headers = {
      'Content-type': 'application/json',
      'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip' /* Request gzip data response */
}

json_data = {'text': 'Lorem Ipsum'}
json_file = json.dumps(json_data)

conn.request('POST', '/post', json_file, headers)

response = conn.getresponse()
data = gzip.decompress(response.read()) /* Decompress gzip data */
data = str(data,'utf-8')
print(data.decode())

URL url = new URL("http://example.com");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip"); /* Request gzip data response */
connection.connect();
InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
try (final GZIPInputStream gzipInput = new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(inputStream)); 
             final StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter()) {
            IOUtils.copy(gzipInput, stringWriter, UTF_8); /* Decompress gzip data */
            return stringWriter.toString();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new UncheckedIOException("Error while decompression!", e);
        }

public string GetUrl(string Url, string PostData, bool GZip)
{
    HttpWebRequest Http = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Url);

    if (GZip)
        Http.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, “gzip,deflate”); 

        /* Request gzip data response */

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(PostData))
    {
        Http.Method = "POST";
        byte[] lbPostBuffer = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(PostData);

        Http.ContentLength = lbPostBuffer.Length;

        Stream PostStream = Http.GetRequestStream();
        PostStream.Write(lbPostBuffer, 0, lbPostBuffer.Length);
        PostStream.Close();
    }

    HttpWebResponse WebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)Http.GetResponse();

    Stream responseStream = responseStream = WebResponse.GetResponseStream();
    if (WebResponse.ContentEncoding.ToLower().Contains("gzip"))
        responseStream = new GZipStream(responseStream, CompressionMode.Decompress);
    else if (WebResponse.ContentEncoding.ToLower().Contains("deflate"))
        responseStream = new DeflateStream(responseStream, CompressionMode.Decompress);            
    /* Decompress gzip data */
    StreamReader Reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.Default);

    string Html = Reader.ReadToEnd();

    WebResponse.Close();
    responseStream.Close();

    return Html;
}

$url = 'http://server.com/path';
$data = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');

// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
    'http' => array(
        'header'  => [
          'Content-type: application/json',
          'Accept-Encoding: gzip' /* Request gzip data response */
         ],
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'content' => http_build_query($data)
    )
);
$context  = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
$decodedResult = gzdecode($result); /* Decompress gzip data */