I need support for outbound data streams to be gzip compressed. Ideally, this would be done by a new tool that can be inserted into a workflow (maybe similar to the Base 64 Encoding tool). Just including it in the Output Tool will not address my needs as I will be sending gzip payloads to a cloud API. There are two main reasons why this is necessary (and without it, quite possibly a roadblock for our enterprise's use of Alteryx):
- Some APIs enforce gzip encoding, therefore Alteryx cannot currently be used to interact with such APIs
- When transmitting large volumes of data across the Internet, gzip compression will significantly decrease transmission times