RFC 7932: Brotli Compressed Data Format
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC7932
- Published
- July 2016
- Authors
- J. Alakuijala; Z. Szabadka
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 128
- Also known as
- —
- Updated by:
- RFC 9841
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