compressed QTcp Communication

[Qiieha]

Hi guys,
I want to compress(gzip), uncompress the transmitted data. I work with QTcpSocket, or QSslSocket. Now I want to know, what is the best solution.
I know, that I cannot use the Qt methods qCompress and qUncompress, because they don't support gzip.
Should I use third party libs?

Thank you

[Robbie]

The old QtSolutions used to have a QIOCompressor class for doing just this. I see it's no longer in the QtSolutions link displayed on the Qt website but the classes are still available on the FTP site.

[wysota]

Should I use third party libs?

If qCompress/qUncompress cannot do what you want then you need to use third-party solutions. However first make sure qCompress indeed doesn't support what you want (it uses zlib which was written for gzip).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib

[Qiieha]

thank you for your replies!