Java: Error creating a GZIPInputStream: Not in GZIP format

Question

I am trying to use the following Java code to compress and uncompress a String. But the line that creates a new GZipInputStream object out of a new ByteArrayInputStream obj

Answer 1

You encoded baostream to a string with your default platform encoding, probably UTF-8. You should be using baostream.getBytes() to work with binary data, not strings.

If you insist on a string, use an 8-bit encoding, e.h. baostream.toString("ISO-8859-1"), and read it back with the same charset.