Java decompressing array of bytes

Question

On server (C++), binary data is compressed using ZLib function:

compress2()

and it\'s sent over to client (Java). On client side (

Answer 1

InflaterInputStream is expecting raw deflate data (RFC 1951), whereas compress2() is producing zlib-wrapped deflate data (RFC 1950 around RFC 1951).

Inflater on the other hand does process zlib-wrapped data (unless you give it the nowrap option). Go figure.