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Subject: RE: [saml-dev] DEFLATE Implementation in JAVA

From: "Lars Beekmann" <L.Beekmann@intershop.de>
To: "Greg Thompson" <thompson@credentica.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:18:42 +0200

I've already tried this as well ;(


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Thompson [mailto:thompson@credentica.com] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 15:13
To: Lars Beekmann
Cc: saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [saml-dev] DEFLATE Implementation in JAVA

Lars Beekmann wrote:
> String deflated = byteArrayOutputStream.toString("UTF-8");

Hi Lars.  DeflaterOutputStream compresses into binary data, not into a 
UTF-8 encoding, so the above isn't what you want.  You need to run 
byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray() through a Base64 encoder (RFC 2045).
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		Greg Thompson
		Credentica