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Barnsy · 07-13-2009, 08:13 PM

Hi All,

I thought I'd just share with you something I encountered recently when adding ePUB files for download on my website (Promotional link removed - MODERATOR]. Maybe it might help someone in the future.

My site is running ASP.NET and is using .NET to deflate/gzip content. This included downloaded files (PDF, ePUB and Mobi). To my surprise, it seems that deflate was dropping the last 4 bytes on the ePUB files. I didn't bother open the ePUB files with a hex editor to see what the last 4 bytes were but in notepad they looked like blanks (whitespace). When trying to load the ePUB files into calibre I was told that they weren't valid zip files. Funny enough, if I renamed the files .zip, winzip would extract them just fine. Oh well.

Anyways, long story short, I stopped using deflate/gzip for my download files and the problem is solved.

07-13-2009, 08:13 PM	#1
Barnsy Member Posts: 3 Karma: 20000 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Canada Device: none	ePUB and deflate/gzip Hi All, I thought I'd just share with you something I encountered recently when adding ePUB files for download on my website (Promotional link removed - MODERATOR]. Maybe it might help someone in the future. My site is running ASP.NET and is using .NET to deflate/gzip content. This included downloaded files (PDF, ePUB and Mobi). To my surprise, it seems that deflate was dropping the last 4 bytes on the ePUB files. I didn't bother open the ePUB files with a hex editor to see what the last 4 bytes were but in notepad they looked like blanks (whitespace). When trying to load the ePUB files into calibre I was told that they weren't valid zip files. Funny enough, if I renamed the files .zip, winzip would extract them just fine. Oh well. Anyways, long story short, I stopped using deflate/gzip for my download files and the problem is solved. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 11-10-2011 at 04:03 PM.