GZIP Data

[cx323]

I'm parsing the Content-Length from a return header and grabbing that much data, which appears to be all of it, from the packets i receive. I then write it to a file like this:

byte[] strHTMLb = StrToByteArray(strParts[1]);
     FileStream fs = File.Create(Environment.CurrentDirectory + @"\\gzipData.gz");
     BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs);
     bw.Write(strHTMLb);

     bw.Close();
     fs.Close();

The problem is that it also says the magic number is wrong when i try to decompress the gzip information. I tested my decompression on actual gzip data and it works fine so i know it's something with either my parsing or writing to the file. If anyone has an idea of what i'm doing wrong that would be great. Thanks for any help

[wossname]

Your path is wrong for starters, either have "\\gzipData.gz" or @"\gzipData.gz" but not both.

You don't need the binary writer at all. The FileStream can write your byte array for you.

2005 has the GZipStream class, I suggest you give that a try.

[cx323]

thanks for the help.

if i put ‹ betwen 2 box characters at the beggining of my gzip data, when i open it in notepad, then it works until it gets to the crc check to see if the data is corrupted. I'm not sure how i can get it to work thoug. Note: ‹ is not <. Thanks for any help

Here's my string to byte array function, maybe i made an error there?

public static byte[] StrToByteArray(string str)
        {
            System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
            return encoding.GetBytes(str);
            
        }