curl-library
Re: How does libCurl handle Content-Encoding GZIP + partial responses in respect to automatically decoding of compressed content
From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:28:29 -0700
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:28:29 -0700
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Stefan Krause wrote:
> Might it theoretically happen that all the compressed data has to be
> received and stored on the heap
> before it can be decompressed?
The maximum amount of a gzip/deflate data stream you would need to keep
around before being able to decompress it is a function of the compression
level used by the server, but is never more than 64 KiB.
>>> Dan
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