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Google used to do something called SDCH (Shared Dictionary Compression for HTTP), where a delta compression dictionary was downloaded to Chrome.

The dictionary had to be updated from time to time to keep a good compression rate as the Google website changed over time. There was a whole protocol to handle verifying what dictionary the client had and such.



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