How many bytes does gzip compress?

Posted by veryrealsid on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:35PM
from the awsistoohard.com dept.

https://www.awsistoohard.com/blog/gzip-is-cracked

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Re:How many bytes does gzip compress? by adem on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:19AM (#46160298)

The page lags horribly on Firefox Android

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Re:How many bytes does gzip compress? by lakis on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:04PM (#46167282)

On the explanation for step 1, the author only removes "the" as redundant. But there are more byte ranges that can be removed The following can be removed as reduntant "the " (notice the space) "at"

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Re:How many bytes does gzip compress? by veryrealsid on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:33PM (#46168270)

great catch! apologies was trying to keep it simple but I see what you're saying!

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