| # gzip-header |
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| A library to decode and encode headers for the [gzip format](http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-gzip.html). |
| The library also contains a reader absctraction over a CRC checksum hasher. |
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| A file in the gzip format contains a gzip header, a number of compressed data blocks in the [DEFLATE](http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-deflate.html) format, and ends with the CRC32-checksum (in the IEEE format) and number of bytes (modulo `2^32`) of the uncompressed data. |
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| The gzip header is purely a set of metadata, and doesn't have any impact on the decoding of the compressed data other than the fact that `DEFLATE`-encoded data with a gzip-header is checked using the CRC32 algorithm. |
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| This library is based on the gzip header functionality in the [flate2](https://crates.io/crates/flate2) crate. |
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| # License |
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| Like the non-C parts of `flate2-rs`, `gzip-header` is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0), |
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| See LICENSE-APACHE, and LICENSE-MIT for details. |
