Yeah dynamic stuff is a whole different kettle of fish. The dynamic content on Mibbit is usually very small - maybe 100-200 bytes. The HTTP request headers are

Yeah dynamic stuff is a whole different kettle of fish. The dynamic content on Mibbit is usually very small - maybe 100-200 bytes. The HTTP request headers are usually more (Which can't be compressed). For Mibbit, I'd like to eventually do my own compression which will beat the socks off gzip, as it'll be session based rather than per request. But yeah, I can see use cases where you're sending dynamic stuff which will benefit from gzip and where pre-caching on disk doesn't really make sense.