Does OpenEdge Httpclient support compressed (gzip) messages ?

Does OpenEdge Httpclient support compressed HTTP messages ?
Can HTTP client send requests with Accept-Encoding: gzip (or other protocols ?)
Does the HTTP client understand responses with Content-Encoding: gzip or Content-Encoding: Deflate ?

Use case:
Can in most cases improve performance of transferring larger responses, possibly avoiding timeouts.

The HTTP client currently does not support compressed HTML messages.

It was determined that the Progress Product is functioning as designed.
 
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References to Other Documentation:
Progress Article(s):

Is there an HTTP client for OpenEdge?