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Matthias Stevens commented on COMPRESS-263:
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Ok, I must have forgotten to include it in the patch.
> Add DEFLATE support
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> Key: COMPRESS-263
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-263
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Compressors
> Reporter: Matthias Stevens
> Labels: features
> Fix For: 1.9
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> Attachments: COMPRESS-263_DeflateSupport.patch
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> GZIP is not a compression algorithm "as such". The de facto (and currently
> the only supported) compression algorithm it uses is DEFLATE. GZIP adds a
> header of minimum 10 bytes and a footer of 8 bytes the the "Deflated" data
> stream. 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 and DEFLATE streams with the zlib header.
> Similarly to the GZIP support in Commons Compress these functionality can be
> implemented very easily using the standard java.util.zip package, as done in
> the provided patch.
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