title: HttpWebRequest and gzip
body: <p>Do I need to specify in my request that I wish to accept gzip, or is this default behavior? I am talking to a WCF RESTful Json service.</p>
  
  <pre><code>// Create the web request  
  HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as HttpWebRequest;
  
  request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"] = "gzip";
  </code></pre>