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Subject: Re: [security-services] Bug in the bindings doc; wrong RFC
Sure enough, it looks like I got it wrong too... and I did the original experiments to make sure that we could do what we wanted with off-the-shelf libraries. :-( In Java, It looks like one can use Deflater with the constructor that takes the 'nowrap' parameter. -Greg On Feb 7, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Scott Cantor wrote: >> If DEFLATE/RFC1951 is what was intended, and what is still desired, >> then >> the specification is correct, although it is missing a bibliography >> entry for the actual RFC. > > Yes, this is definitely what was intended, and it does reference 1951 > in > that section, but the bib. entry is missing. > >> I will point out, however, that everyone seems to have implemented it >> wrong. Let me emphasize that: everyone. Certainly, some of this is >> the >> fault of errors in the Java documentation. But it also has to make >> you >> wonder if the spec itself doesn't, somehow, need improvement. > > Well, it could say "don't be fooled by the incorrect Sun > documentation", I > guess. ;-) Did anybody get it wrong that *wasn't* using Java or was > led to > assume that the output of the Java classes was to be trusted? > > I did think we needed samples to validate with because I didn't trust > any > particular library without independent verification that it was > producing > nothing but the DEFLATE stream. I'd be curious if the samples in the > spec > are correct. I produced them by hand by attempting to strip the gzip > header > off the output of gzip itself. > > I asked a few times for people to give me samples I could verify with > so > that we'd flag any problems... > > -- Scott > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > security-services-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: > security-services-help@lists.oasis-open.org
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