SharpZipLib, although GPL, has a special exception which allows it to be used for commercial applications.
If commercial components are on the menu, try WCF-Xtensions. It provides support for deflate, gzip, zlib, lzf3, lzf, bzip2 and lzma compression both for requests and responses. Should be able to do what you ask for.
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