What is the correct way to use compression?

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I am only more confused after going through the compression PR and the prior discussion around it here 👽. I have a use case where my .net client application running on windows needs to download a file from Linux server with compression enabled (large bulky uncompressed data). Based on the PR, the default is none. How do I "turn on" the compression from the .net code? Does it automatically pick-up if my sshd on the linux is set to compression? can I do it by session similar to ssh -C?