Re: Compression support?

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Ron <ron () skullsecurity net> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> We discussed this a long time ago, but I don't really remember what the
> result was. Would it be possible to add zlib (or equivalent) bindings to
> NSE so we could read/write a compressed stream?
>
> I know the http-git script needed it, but we worked around. There was
> recently a zimbra vulnerability that would have made it easier, and I'm
> hoping to write a SPDY script, and that also requires compression.
>
> Is there anything holding us back from including zlib?
>
> (I'd offer to code the bindings, but I've never done NSE->C bindings
> before. :( )

Usually there are existing bindings which we should use first:

https://github.com/brimworks/lua-zlib

(from a quick Google). Should be simple enough to copy to a
nse_zlib.cc with appropriate attributions.

-- 
Patrick Donnelly
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