Parsing GZip Stream Without Looking Back

▤ Summary

Some files can exist in two equivalent forms – compressed and uncompressed. To open a compressed file in C#, you could pass it to GZipStream – it works flawlessly. However, you just consumed 2 bytes and simply handing over file stream to GZipStream will no longer work. For and many more transparently compressed formats, you can simply decide to skip into bread-and-butter of encryption – deflate algorithm. If you move just additional 8 bytes (thus skipping a total of 10), you can use DeflateStream and forget about “rewinding.” Wanna see example?

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