heavyccasey@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > The documentation for zlib says that it expects an Adler-32 checksum > at the end of the file. > > PHP follows this [largely outdated] standard. Uh, nothing to do with PHP, the code is in zlib. > Python, on the other hand, doesn't, and uses a different checksum, > CRC-32. There's something crooked going here. No-one should have to write up work-arounds for weird incompatibilities in the gzip format. The problem is - why is Python using an incorrect checksum? And is Python not using the zlib library? http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-zlib.html >From this page: "There are known incompatibilities between the Python module and versions of the zlib library earlier than 1.1.3; 1.1.3 has a security vulnerability, so we recommend using 1.1.4 or later." Do you have the right zlib version? Mine is 1.2.3. If your work-around works, well, fine. Personally I'd dig a little deeper. I would positively hate having that kind of crud in my production code. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
