Questions tagged [deflate]
deflate is a lossless data compression format, and also refers to implementations that compress to the deflate format. The deflate format was created by Phil Katz of PKWare for the PKZip (.zip) archive format. Public domain software provides deflate and inflate functionality in the gzip utility and the zlib library.
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Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache?
What advantages do either method offer for html, css and javascript files served by a LAMP server. Are there better alternatives?
The server provides information to a map application using Json, so a ...
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Is there a GZIP merger that merges two GZIP files without decompressing them?
Let's say there's a.gz, and b.gz.
$ gzip_merge a.gz b.gz -output c.gz
I'd like to have this program. Of course,
$ cat a.gz b.gz > c.gz
doesn't work. Because the final DEFLATE block of a.gz has ...
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http/1.0 and deflate/gzip
Is http/1.0 able to handle deflated and gzip content?
I've finished to implement deflate and gzip in my minimalist web server and I don't really know if browsers with http/1.0 are capable to handle ...
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Is there any performance hit involved in choosing gzip over deflate for http compression?
We recently switched some of our sites from deflate to gzip and noticed a significant increase in cpu load on our servers.
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