I am receiving data from a server through a socket using boost asio, and the data is compressed using zlib. I need to inflate this data once I get it. Is there an easy way to do this using boost? Or any other way? The code is C++.
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I am receiving data from a server through a socket using boost asio, and the data is compressed using zlib. I need to inflate this data once I get it. Is there an easy way to do this using boost? Or any other way? The code is C++.
The Boost.Iostreams library includes a zlib decompressor filter (link). You can read a chunk of data from the socket into a buffer then decompress, or you can (hopefully, but I haven’t tried it myself) chain the filter onto the socket and read decompressed data straight out of the end of the filter.
Note, however, that you have to re-compile boost with zlib support. (link)