Add a new compression format, "deflate-raw", to give web developers access to the raw deflate stream without any headers or footers. This is needed, for example, to read and write zip files.

Motivation

To allow web developers to handle raw deflate stream without any headers or footers.

Specification

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Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink>Network>StreamsAPI


Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

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Last updated on 2022-05-15