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Is there a simple, standard way to decompress a gzip raw data buffer in Objective-C? I could not find anything useful in the Apple Developer documentation.
If not, can you point me to a code walk-through, a library, anything that will make my life easier? I am not afraid to write C code.
There is a NSData category available at cocoadev that can handle zlib and gzip data:
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSDataCategory
If you just need gzip decompression, you can remove the zlib & hash related methods.
Don’t forget to add a link libz.dylib (OS X standard library) build phase.
Update
As pointed out by marcos1490 in the comments, the original CocoaDev entry disappeared, but someone extended that NSData category and wrote about it: http://deusty.blogspot.de/2007/07/gzip-compressiondecompression.html