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    <p>I'm working on a project where a Windows web server running PHP is communicating over a very slow connection with a back end Linux server running an application written in C++. Because the connection between the two machines is so slow, I'd like to compress the traffic moving between them.</p> <p>I've gotten to where I can compress a string, save it to a file, read the file, and uncompress the string in C++ using Zlib, and likewise in PHP. However, if I try to compress a string in one language and decompress it in the other (as will be happening in the real world), I get errors griping that the compressed data is corrupted. I've also noticed that the same string compressed in C++ results in a different file than in PHP, which leads me to believe that Zlib is using a different compression algorithm on each language.</p> <p>I'm using default settings on both sides. The C++ I'm using to do the compression and decompression is </p> <pre><code>compress((Bytef*)compressed, (uLongf*)&amp;compressedLength, (Bytef*)uncompressed, (uLong)uncomressedLength); uncompress((Bytef*)uncompressed, (uLongf*)&amp;uncomressedLength, (Bytef*)compressed, (uLong)compressedLength); </code></pre> <p>while the PHP code is</p> <pre><code>$compressed = gzcompress($uncompressed); $uncompressed = gzuncompress($compressed); </code></pre> <p>Why are these resulting in different compressed strings? Is that what's causing the problems with decompression? What should I be doing to get this to work? Also, I'm not committed to Zlib. Zlib's what my initial research uncovered, but if there's a better way to do this, I'm all ears.</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: Actually, after doing a little more testing, it appears that C++ was working with my initial test case, but not universally. I tried it with the input "hellohellohello", and on decompression, it reported a Z_DATA_ERROR and decompressed it to just "hello". I guess that means I'm doing something wrong on the C++ side, which may explain why PHP is unhappy decompressing C++ compressed strings.</p> <p><strong>Edit 2</strong>: I tried out the zpipe.c sample program, and it correctly uncompresses strings compressed by PHP and produces compressed strings PHP can uncompress. Clearly, the problem(s) exist in my C++ code. Either my usage of compress and uncompress is incorrect, or I'm reading and writing the file incorrectly. Neither the compress or decompress programs interact correctly with zpipe.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: I've now gotten to where I can compress a string using PHP and read it with either PHP or C++, and I can compress a string with C++ and read it with C++, but attempting to read it with PHP results in PHP Warning: gzuncompress(): data error. What could be different that would cause this combination of working/not working scenarios?</p>
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    1. COThat's not the C++ you're using for the (de)compression, that's just the function declarations.
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    2. COThey're library calls. compressed, compressedLength, etc. are the actual names of the variables I'm using, and since Zlib uses its own types rather than standard types, I'm casting them when I do the call.
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    3. COCould you post your fully updated code, please? Thanks.
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