Download Returned Zip file from URL

Most people recommend using requests if it is available, and the requests documentation recommends this for downloading and saving raw data from a url: Since the answer asks about downloading and saving the zip file, I haven’t gone into details regarding reading the zip file. See one of the many answers below for possibilities. If … Read more

What is the difference between tar and zip?

tar in itself just bundles files together (the result is called a tarball), while zip applies compression as well. Usually you use gzip along with tar to compress the resulting tarball, thus achieving similar results as with zip. For reasonably large archives there are important differences though. A zip archive is a collection of compressed files. A gzipped tar is a compressed collection (of uncompressed files). Thus a zip archive … Read more

How to compress a String in Java?

Compression algorithms almost always have some form of space overhead, which means that they are only effective when compressing data which is sufficiently large that the overhead is smaller than the amount of saved space. Compressing a string which is only 20 characters long is not too easy, and it is not always possible. If … Read more

.rar, .zip files MIME Type

The answers from freedompeace, Kiyarash and Sam Vloeberghs: I would do a check on the file name too. Here is how you could check if the file is a RAR or ZIP file. I tested it by creating a quick command line application. Notice that it still won’t be 100% certain, but it is probably … Read more