advice on compressing multipart via custom HttpClient

I have a custom HTTP client. I want to gzip compress a multipart message and have the apache server decompress it (utilizing SetInputFilter DEFLATE).

I tried just gzipping the file in the multipart message but the file
is received on the server side compressed.

Further research indicated that the entire request may need to be compressed.
I was wondering if anyone can offer any pointers on how to accomplish that.

Thanks!
Deb

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