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Fritz Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Daniel Barron wrote:
>
> > I'm writing a filtering web proxy (see sig) and I'm having trouble with
> > 'Content-Encoding: deflate' compressed data. I need to decompress it to
> > check the content.
> >
> > When it says 'Content-Encoding: gzip', I can just read from the socket as
> > if I were reading a gzip file from the filesystem and pass it through the
> > gzip decompression included in zlib.
> > [snip]
>
> It seems to me that an easier solution might be to have your proxy
> send an "Accept-Encoding" HTTP header to the server in order to disallow
> compressed data...
That was my initial reaction. Infact that is what I did in version 1 of
my proxy. I want version 2 to 'do it properly'.
I've just tried opening the data saved as a file in perl using perls zlib
library. It said data error.
So what format is it actually in?
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Daniel Barron
(Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all)
