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Okay, now I see what you're saying. I would rather not re-write the existing server protocol that other software than mine also uses if gzip provides a way to access the information from the gzip...

Thanks. It's a reasonable point of view, and true, but if the zlib header already contains the information which I want, one would hope that the authors of zlib would create some function to access...

The main thing wrong with it is that I have no idea what you're taling about. For instance, your first sentence is "2 bytes compressed length in network byte order (=n)." What two bytes? Are you...

Thanks. Are there any access functions for the header components?

I have a program which exchanges streams of data with a server across the Internet. It runs on Linux. Different users run it on a wide variety of flavors of Linux. The data streams are compressed....

I ultimately found an answer. It works if I use deflateInit2() instead of deflateInit() and add 16 to the parameter WindowBits. It's not real well documented. Going from buffer to buffer instead...

Thank you for your reply.

I need to compress messages to a remote server and decompress messages which I receive from it. The remote server is running Windows and uses gzip from the class IO.Compression.GZipStream. The...