GZip

I recently encountered a situation where I needed to provide a compressed byte stream to Java’s Inflator class. This probably isn’t a situation that you run into a lot as a .NET developer, but to make a long story short, my FluentCassandra library had to send a compressed byte stream to the database server in order to execute a query. The part that got me scratching my head is the fact that nothing in .NET Framework mentions ZLIB as a supportable compression type. So I had to start hunting down the specification and found that you can actually generate ZLIB compatible compression with the DeflateStream. However the format that Java and other libraries expect has a header in the stream as well as an adler-32 checksum at the end. ...

One of the many recommendations that Yahoo makes on optimizing your web site for high amounts of traffic, and to make the response time speedier to your user is GZip encoding all your static content. I usually do this as a standard for setting up any of my Web Servers, in addition to setting expiration headers on my static content, to ensure that I am serving as little content as possible. ...