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gzip compression in node.js
var zlib = require('zlib');
var gzip = zlib.createGzip();
var input = 'file not found';
var compressed = '';
zlib.deflate(input, function(err, buffer){
console.log(buffer);
console.log(buffer.toString());
console.log(buffer.toString('base64'));
compressed = buffer.toString('base64');
var buffer = new Buffer('eJxLy8xJVcjLL1FIyy/NSwEAJzkFTg==', 'base64');
zlib.unzip(buffer, function(err, buffer){
console.log(buffer.toString())
})
});
console.log(compressed);
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