Re: gzuncompress() Not Working.

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They're exactly the same, except of the last 4 bytes. Python
calculates them differently than PHP. PHP follows the standards,
Python does not :]

This would be more concise if PHP included the gzdecode
(http://us2.php.net/gzdecode) function.

On Nov 7, 2007 12:12 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 PHP follows this [largely outdated] standard.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
>
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