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All modern browsers include gzip routines for exchanging compressed data with servers. Can anyone point me in the right direction for writing a Chrome extension that would allow Javascript to leverage this routine?
I would like to compress some data in Javascript before sending it to the server over a WebSocket, and Chrome’s built in deflate routine would certainly be faster than anything I could write in Javascript.
Based on this answer to a Stack Overflow question, manually applying gzip to a WebSocket is completely unnecessary. As of version 19, Chrome will apparently compress WebSocket traffic automatically when the server supports it.