ASCompress supports GZIP http://code.google.com/p/ascompress/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, David Adams <dpad...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Cato Paus <ca...@...> wrote: > > go here > > http://onrails.org/articles/2007/11/27/flash-utils-bytearray-compressing-4-1mb- to-20k > > Thanks for the link! I couldn't get the AIR app to compile, but > realized it pointed out an obvious strategy: use Flash to > encode/decode the test string. I've got that going now so I can sort > out a byte comparison with my server-side encoder's. > > I also found an old bug report that indicates that Flash only > understands 'zlib' and does not understand deflate, at the moment. > That's a bit of a help but 'zlib' covers a bit of ground, as far as I > can tell (?) > > Thanks again. >