From bfd661c16c5c4826abb6d6bb086e147fac2e60f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Gil <robert.gil@elastic.co>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:26:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Adding compression documentation and example

---
 docs/index.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 0354a5042..b234607f7 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -258,6 +258,21 @@ bodies via post::
     from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
     es = Elasticsearch(send_get_body_as='POST')
 
+Compression
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+When using capacity constrained networks (low throughput), it may be handy to enable
+compression. This is especially useful when doing bulk loads or inserting large
+documents. This will configure compression on the *request*.
+
+   from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
+   es = Elasticsearch(hosts,
+                      maxsize = 500,
+                      connection_class=Urllib3HttpConnection,
+                      timeout = 30,
+                      http_compress = True
+                     )
+
+
 Running on AWS with IAM
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