import gzip as gzip_module from cStringIO import StringIO def main(request, response): if "content" in request.GET: output = request.GET["content"] else: output = request.body out = StringIO() with gzip_module.GzipFile(fileobj=out, mode="w") as f: f.write(output) output = out.getvalue() headers = [("Content-type", "text/plain"), ("Content-Encoding", "gzip"), ("X-Request-Method", request.method), ("X-Request-Query", request.url_parts.query if request.url_parts.query else "NO"), ("X-Request-Content-Length", request.headers.get("Content-Length", "NO")), ("X-Request-Content-Type", request.headers.get("Content-Type", "NO")), ("Content-Length", len(output))] return headers, output