Did you skip the bit where I said it would save mibbit 300GB/month transfer? That's worth doing. I can see the confusion, but you can't compare files with netw

Did you skip the bit where I said it would save mibbit 300GB/month transfer? That's worth doing. I can see the confusion, but you can't compare files with network. Files are allocated in chunks. So shaving off a few bytes of a file does indeed not always save you disk space. However, if you send half as many bytes in your HTTP headers, you save that bandwidth. If you handle 600 of those HTTP requests a second, shaving every byte off that you can, is important. That's not premature optimization.