Handling HTTP ContentEncoding “deflate”

Question

What InputStream type should be used to handle URLConnection streams that have HTTP Content-Encoding set to deflate?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, using the InflaterInputStream with an Inflater object did not always produce the correct decompression. I had to detect the headers and tell the Inflater where the offset to the payload was.

http://thushw.blogspot.com/2014/05/decoding-html-pages-with-content.html