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  == Latency = 0.170 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.110 seconds
  == Restored Body was 1862 bytes ==

=head1 INTRODUCTION

From a historical point of view this package was developed primarily in order to compress the output
of a proprietary CGI binary written in C that was
widely used by Outlook Technologies, Inc. in order to deliver uncompressed dynamically generated
HTML content over the Internet using C<HTTP/1.0> since the mid-'90s.
We were then presented with the challenge of using the content compression
features over C<HTTP/1.1> on busy production servers, especially those serving heavy traffic on virtual hosts
of popular American broadcasting companies.

The very first our attempts to implement a static gzip approach in order to compress the
dynamic content helped us to scale effectively the bandwidth at
the cost of significantly increased latency of the content delivery.

That was why I came up with an idea to use chunked data transmission of
the gzipped content, sharing a real time between the server side data
creation/compression, media data transmission, and the client side data
decompression/presentation in order to provide end users with the partially