> Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more.
I thought a gzip bomb was crafted to explicitly be virtually unlimited in the "payload" size?
The blog post (https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/) says that gzip bombs don't work particularly well:
> Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more.
I thought a gzip bomb was crafted to explicitly be virtually unlimited in the "payload" size?