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Spoiler alert: servers don't do that, and even if they did, the clients would have to do it too to save bandwidth.

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This is not applicable to WebSockets.

Yeah, websockets have their own method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19298651/how-does-websock.... Cowboy already supports x-webkit-deflate-frame, will support more soon.