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If that is what I have to do, I must say that the proper settings of the parameters to deflateInit2() to produce a gzip type header are not well documented. Something about adding 16 to windowsBits.
It's not "Something about adding 16", it's exactly adding 16. I don't understand why you say this is not well documented.
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Originally Posted by zlib Manual
Add 16 to windowBits to write a simple gzip header and trailer around the compressed data instead of a zlib wrapper.
Okay, then, could you post a link to the good documentation about how to choose the parameters to get deflateInit2 to produce gzip headers? For example, how do you choose the windows bits in the first place before you add the 16, and what should the other parameters be? Is there a source that explains the parameters in more than one sentence? Something like that and maybe a couple of examples would be what I would call good documentation.
Last edited by Brandon9000; 09-17-2012 at 03:45 PM.
Okay, then, could you post a link to the good documentation about how to choose the parameters to get deflateInit2 to produce gzip headers? For example, how do you choose the windows bits in the first place before you add the 16, and what should the other parameters be? Is there a source that explains the parameters in more than one sentence?
I just extracted the sentence relevant to the gzip headers from the zlib manual which contains all this information.
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Something like that and maybe a couple of examples would be what I would call good documentation.
Okay, the manual doesn't contain example usage, but the zlib distribution does come with source code for minigzip.
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