unzipping a gzipped string

[Aaron Patterson]

I'm trying to unzip a string I have in memory, but unfortunately I keep
getting a 'incorrect header check (Zlib:ataError)' when I try to unzip
the string.

The weird thing is that I can write the string out to a file, and unzip
it using gzip or even Zlib::GzipReader.

For example, using the same file, this works:

require 'zlib'

File.open(ARGV[0], 'r') { |f|
gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(f)
puts gz.read
}

But this doesn't (it fails with 'incorrect header check'):

require 'zlib'

File.open(ARGV[0], 'r') { |f|
puts Zlib::Inflate.inflate(f.read)
}

Anyone have any hints? Thanks.

--Aaron

 

[Erik Veenstra]

You might have to use binary files.

File.open(ARGV[0], 'rb')

Windows differentiates between binary and text files.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

 

[Aaron Patterson]

You might have to use binary files.

File.open(ARGV[0], 'rb')

Windows differentiates between binary and text files.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

I'm on OS X. I tried it with 'rb', but still get the same error.

--Aaron

 

[E. Mark Ping]

I'm trying to unzip a string I have in memory, but unfortunately I keep
getting a 'incorrect header check (Zlib:ataError)' when I try to unzip
the string.

The weird thing is that I can write the string out to a file, and unzip
it using gzip or even Zlib::GzipReader.

For example, using the same file, this works:

require 'zlib'

File.open(ARGV[0], 'r') { |f|
gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(f)
puts gz.read
}

But this doesn't (it fails with 'incorrect header check'):

require 'zlib'

File.open(ARGV[0], 'r') { |f|
puts Zlib::Inflate.inflate(f.read)
}

Anyone have any hints? Thanks.

A Gzip file has a header which includes the original filename. A
zlib-compressed string doesn't have the same header.