HttpWebRequest & Native GZip Compression

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What about the webrequest AutomaticDecompression Property available since .net 2? Simply add:

webRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate;

It also adds the gzip,deflate to the accept encoding header.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.automaticdecompression.aspx

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