permessage-deflate keeps a compression window per connection unless context takeover is disabled
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:53:17.083Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:53:17.083Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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The permessage-deflate extension from RFC 7692 is negotiated during the handshake and compresses message payloads. By default each direction retains its compression context across messages, which compresses repetitive JSON well and holds a sliding window plus compressor state for the entire life of every connection. At tens of thousands of concurrent sockets that memory becomes the dominant cost of the process.
The server and client no-context-takeover parameters reset the context per message, cutting per-connection memory sharply at the cost of a worse ratio, and the max window bits parameter trades ratio for a smaller window. Several server libraries disable the extension by default for exactly this reason, so check whether your deployment has it enabled before assuming payloads are compressed. Compression also adds CPU per message, a poor trade for small or already-compressed frames.
Source: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7692.html
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