zlib
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zlib format is a variant of the DEFLATE compressed data format. It adds a lightweight container, a small amount of configurability, and error checking.
zlib is also the name of a software library that supports the zlib format, and other formats related to DEFLATE.
There are many formats and protocols that use, or may use, zlib format. A notable example is PNG.
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Identification
The first byte of a zlib datastream has eight possible values: 0x08, 0x18, 0x28, ..., 0x78.
If the first two bytes are interpreted as a big-endian integer, it is always a multiple of 31.
Specifications
- RFC 1950: ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3
Software
- zlib data compression library
- CloudFlare fork of zlib
- zlib-ng
- Puff - Lightweight decompression software included with zlib (contrib/puff)
- miniz
- zopfli - zlib compressor highly optimized for file size
- Offzip
- Deark
See also DEFLATE#Software.
