[File] Detecting brotli compressed files

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sun May 17 19:24:45 UTC 2020


I think I've seen this question asked before. Where can we get example files or at least a program to generate them?
There is no magic number in the RFC so we'll need to do some consistency check in the DICT?

Best,

christos

> On May 17, 2020, at 4:54 AM, Christoph Biedl <astron.com.bwoj at manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> someone[1] asked for support of the brotli compression (RFC 7932).
> Taking a quick glance I failed to see how this can be done easily.
> Perhaps somebody out there has a clue - or just better coffee?
> 
>    Christoph
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/929181
> 
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