Gzip compression support for requests

[vbabenkoru]

#1473 added code to handle gzip-compressed responses received from ES, but is there a way to send compressed requests, for example bulk requests?

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[vbabenkoru]

@sksamuel Any thoughts on this? I'm wondering if this could improve ingestion performance.

[sksamuel]

It might be enabled by default. If not, if you want to open a PR to add the option I can do a release.