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Yes. You might as well just send a gzip'd file directly. It will be higher compression than Deflate (or if not, use BZip or 7zip), won't have the Base64 overhea
by calinet6 13y ago
Yes. You might as well just send a gzip'd file directly. It will be higher compression than Deflate (or if not, use BZip or 7zip), won't have the Base64 overhead, and (gasp) won't depend on a web service to decode. It also has the distinct advantage of not being really friggin annoying.
In other words, this is entirely useless, except as an amusement. Because it's funny how useless it is.
- jychang 13y agoWell, no. To people, a pastebin.com/asdovnasdofnvopdsisadvasdfgv link is just as unmemorable as a base64 encode of an actual 1kb code data. However, nowadays, if I have a 1kb snippet I want fairly securely shared, sticking it in a chat box isn't a problem.
- lelandbatey 13y agoWell, except that it's a web site. That's why I would be attracted to this: it's something that I can send to anybody and it will always, always work. No hassle.
- dbaupp 13y agoGzip is just a container format around DEFLATE.