Matthias Stevens created COMPRESS-263:
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Summary: Add DEFLATE support
Key: COMPRESS-263
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-263
Project: Commons Compress
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Compressors
Reporter: Matthias Stevens
GZIP is not a compression algorithm "as such". It in fact uses the DEFLATE
algorithm but adds a header of minimum 10 bytes and a footer of 8 bytes.
Find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip#File_format
I have no problem with the current GZIP support, but it would be nice if
CommonsCompress would also have compression and decompression support for "raw"
DEFLATE streams.
Like GZIP itself this can be implemented very easily using the standard
java.util.zip package.
Have a look at import java.util.zip.Deflater and java.util.zip.Inflater.
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