diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 460b51592..6fb0c8518 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,14 +10,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 - oas 3.0 base path handling (See issue [#297](https://github.com/Axway-API-Management-Plus/apim-cli/issues/297)
 - BackendBasepath problem exporting SOAP API with apim-cli (See issue [#299](https://github.com/Axway-API-Management-Plus/apim-cli/issues/299)
+- Importing SOAP API with apim-cli adds "+" instead of spaces for the Backend API name (See issue [#301](https://github.com/Axway-API-Management-Plus/apim-cli/issues/301)
 
 ### Changed
+- Added new parameter disableCompression.  The parameter enables logging API Gateway responses for debugging.
+  - Usage - **api get -u apiadmin -p Space*Salt*25 -h 208.67.129.25 -port 8075 -n "PetStore 3.0" -o json -disableCompression**
+  - Enable http client header and payload logging using jvm -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime=true -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http=DEBUG
 - If backendBasepath is present in api-config.json, Openapi (OAS 3) servers.url will be modified based on the values. E.g
   - If open api servers.url is /api/v3 and backendBasepath is https://backend, the openapi server.url will be replaced with https://backend/api/v3
   - If open api servers.url is https://petstore.swagger.io/api/v3 and backendBasepath is https://backend, the openapi server.url will be replaced with https://backend/api/v3
   - If open api servers.url is https://petstore.swagger.io/api/v3 and backendBasepath is https://backend/api, the openapi server.url will be replaced with https://backend/api/api/v3
 
-
 ## [1.12.2] 2022-07-28
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreCLIOptions.java b/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreCLIOptions.java
index 77a30cd56..664a6a1d5 100644
--- a/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreCLIOptions.java
+++ b/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreCLIOptions.java
@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ public Parameters getParams() throws AppException {
 		params.setProxyUsername(getValue("httpProxyUsername"));
 		params.setProxyPassword(getValue("httpProxyPassword"));
 		params.setRetryDelay(getValue("retryDelay"));
-		
-		
-		return (Parameters) params;
+		params.setDisableCompression(hasOption("disableCompression"));
+		return params;
 	}
 
 	@Override
@@ -159,6 +158,10 @@ public void addOptions() {
 		option.setRequired(false);
 		option.setArgName("true");
 		cliOptions.addInternalOption(option);
+
+		option = new Option("disableCompression", false, "Disable Http Client gzip Compression");
+		option.setRequired(false);
+		cliOptions.addInternalOption(option);
 	}
 
 	@Override
diff --git a/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreParameters.java b/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreParameters.java
index 877eb50f9..746a6d900 100644
--- a/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreParameters.java
+++ b/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/CoreParameters.java
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ public static Mode valueOfDefault(String key) {
 	private String proxyPassword;
 	
 	private int retryDelay;
+
+	private boolean disableCompression;
 	
 	public CoreParameters() {
 		super();
@@ -544,6 +546,14 @@ public List<CacheType> getEnabledCacheTypes() {
 		return null;
 	}
 
+	public boolean isDisableCompression() {
+		return disableCompression;
+	}
+
+	public void setDisableCompression(boolean disableCompression) {
+		this.disableCompression = disableCompression;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public String toString() {
 		return "[hostname=" + hostname + ", username=" + username + ", stage=" + stage + "]";
diff --git a/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/utils/rest/APIMHttpClient.java b/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/utils/rest/APIMHttpClient.java
index 18d53c629..c8c8207ed 100644
--- a/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/utils/rest/APIMHttpClient.java
+++ b/modules/apim-adapter/src/main/java/com/axway/apim/lib/utils/rest/APIMHttpClient.java
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ private void createConnection(URI uri) throws AppException {
 				}
 				defaultRequestConfig.setProxy(proxyHost);
 			}
+			if(params.isDisableCompression())
+				clientBuilder.disableContentCompression();
 			clientBuilder.setDefaultRequestConfig(defaultRequestConfig.build());
 			this.httpClient = clientBuilder.build();
 		} catch (Exception e) {
diff --git a/modules/apim-adapter/src/test/java/com/axway/lib/CoreCLIOptionsTest.java b/modules/apim-adapter/src/test/java/com/axway/lib/CoreCLIOptionsTest.java
index f1cf0e799..23a4cf0fd 100644
--- a/modules/apim-adapter/src/test/java/com/axway/lib/CoreCLIOptionsTest.java
+++ b/modules/apim-adapter/src/test/java/com/axway/lib/CoreCLIOptionsTest.java
@@ -115,4 +115,21 @@ public void testAPIBasePathParam() throws ParseException, AppException {
 		
 		Assert.assertEquals(params.getApiBasepath(), "/fr/apim/v13/portal");
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testDisableCompression() throws AppException {
+		String[] args = {"-disableCompression"};
+		CLIOptions options = SampleCLIOptions.create(args);
+		CoreParameters params = (CoreParameters) options.getParams();
+		Assert.assertEquals(params.isDisableCompression(), true);
+
+	}
+	@Test
+	public void testDisableCompressionNegative() throws AppException {
+		String[] args = {""};
+		CLIOptions options = SampleCLIOptions.create(args);
+		CoreParameters params = (CoreParameters) options.getParams();
+		Assert.assertEquals(params.isDisableCompression(), false);
+
+	}
 }