November 23, 2022
Gzip internals: How to implement gzip (de)compression
Introduction Gzip (typically files with .gz extension) is a file format that contains compressed data blocks. It is used in web protocol such as http to compress data being communicated which saves bandwidth, for example, compressing the message body (webpage) of an http response. The interesting thing about gzip is that gzip decompression can be implemented as a streaming algorithm which makes it a good candidate for compression in web protocols. For example, if you go...
