Category "deflate"

LZ77 Extra Bits in DEFLATE

In the LZ77 phase of the DEFLATE compression, extra bits are used to represent the length and distances of the back reference. However, are these extra bits con

When to form a new DEFLATE block?

When compressing a file or directory into a zip file using DEFLATE, when should a new DEFLATE block be formed? Furthermore, since the maximum code length is 15

puff.c How does the huffman decoding work?

I am trying to decompress a raw DEFLATE data stream in order to understand, how the DEFLATE decompression works. I don't care for performance at the moment. I j

uncompressing xml feed gzip deflate php

I am being sent an XML feed which needs to be downloaded in a 'compressed way'. The example I have been given is this: $url = 'http://myurl.com'; $headers[] =