[tor-bugs] #12778 [meek]: Put meek HTTP headers on a diet

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#12778: Put meek HTTP headers on a diet
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     Reporter:  dcf          |      Owner:  dcf
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  closed
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  meek         |    Version:
   Resolution:  fixed        |   Keywords:
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Comment (by dcf):

 A back-of-the-envelope calculation of potential savings: In
 [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-December/007916.html
 November 2014] we had 167 M requests and 1269 GB on meek-amazon. If we
 saved 413 − 162 = 251 bytes on each request, that's 167 M × 251 B = 39 GB,
 or 3% of total bandwidth, or somewhere between $4.50 and $7.50 in cost,
 depending on the region. These numbers are approximate because TLS pads
 application data records so we don't save exactly 251 bytes on each
 request, and additionally the Host and Content-Length headers can change
 the length of the header.

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