What's the correct way to POST a compressed JSON string with RestSharp?

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I want to use RestSharp to POST something somewhere. I'm posting straight JSON (and not POCOs). Because I'm posting plain JSON, I believe I need to use this workaround instead of setting Body:

request.AddParameter(
    "application/json", myJsonString, ParameterType.RequestBody);

This works fine when I'm not compressing the JSON. When I do, using this:

request.Headers.Add("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
request.AddParameter(
    "application/json", 
     GZipStream.CompressString(myJsonString), 
     ParameterType.RequestBody);

This doesn't work. I stepped through the code and in RestClient::ConfigureHttp, I see:

http.RequestBody = body.Value.ToString();

Since I'm giving at a byte array, body.Value is set to System.Byte[]

Is there a way for RestSharp to handle a gzipped json string in a POST request?

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