Post · bonfire.cafe

I was surprised to learn that gzip streams encode which operating system did the compression. I built a little tool, "gzpeek", to inspect this metadata (and more): https://evanhahn.com/introducing-gzpeek/

#gzip #metadata #programming #compression

Introducing gzpeek, a tool to parse gzip metadata

gzip streams contain hidden metadata, like the operating system that did the compression. I built gzpeek, a tool to read this metadata.

#gzip #compression #metadata #programming