Check, if compressed content saves bandwidth or indexing time.

[miku]

A 1Gb NIC is easily saturated with bulk requests. We might be able to save time and bandwidth through compression.

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-http.html
• https://gist.github.com/bryfry/09a650eb8aac0fb76c24
• http://jijeshmohan.github.io/post/compress-http-request-in-go/

[miku]

Some related discussions in:

• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/241
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/704

and:

• http://jijeshmohan.github.io/post/compress-http-request-in-go/