Matthias Stevens created COMPRESS-263: -----------------------------------------
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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)