rfc-1951

DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3

P. Deutsch
date1996-05 streamLegacy statusINFORMATIONAL pages17 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1951 doi10.17487/RFC1951 errataview
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.