JavaScript: Decompress / inflate /unzip /ungzip strings

javascript gzip unzip inflate compression
Ondra Žižka picture Ondra Žižka · Feb 2, 2011 · Viewed 83.4k times · Source

I'm looking for JavaScript implementation of string inflating algorithms. I want to compress on the server side (Java), and decompress on the client side (JavaScript).

I've found:

unzip strings in javascript
That one is marked as answered with an answer for different problem. Other answers are also for something else (unzipping files in ZIP format).

JavaScript inflate implementation (possibly FF 3.6 only)
This is closest to what I need. However I'd like to have some alternatives.

Suggestions?
Thanks, Ondra

Update: I have quite a specific use case, please don't answer "Don't do that in JavaScript." I am writing an "offline" reporting tool (once generated, it's put to a static store) and deflating may save megabytes for a single report. I am constrained by other apps so I can't store it as a zip file.

Answer

Sean Kinsey picture Sean Kinsey · Feb 2, 2011

Take a look at this Stack Overflow question, the answers there contains references to multiple compressing engines implemented in javascript. Most of these are based on LZ77.

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