Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.246,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
A new helper can compress an outbound request body, first appending a newline and between 0 and 256 random spaces or tabs so the compressed size does not reveal the exact payload length, and setting Content-Encoding: gzip. It does nothing unless a compression-decision function is supplied at the call site and picks gzip for that URL; otherwise the request is sent as before.
Details
The padding is added before compression, so it affects the transmitted size rather than the content the server parses.
