Req #46577 [Com]: gzip functions don't read/write mtime header

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46577&edit=1 ID: 46577 Comment by: cmanley at xs4all dot nl Reported by: mmj048 at gmail dot com Summary: gzip functions don't read/write mtime header Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Zlib related Operating System: Windows Vista PHP Version: 5.2.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I've added a feature request related to this here in order to set/read it via stream context options: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/10222 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-11-15 11:34:01] mmj048 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ The gzencode and gzwrite functions, which implement RFC 1952 (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-gzip.html), don't read/write the mtime header. While this is not necessary for gzip compliance (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-gzip.html#id-compliance) adding a function to read/write the mtime header when compressing or reading compressed files would be very useful in many cases. I currently use custom code to read/write the gzip mtime header. Read: $gzmtime = end(unpack('V', file_get_contents($gzfile, null, null, 4, 4))); Write: $r = fopen($gzfile, 'r+'); fseek($r, 4); fwrite($r, pack('V', $filemtime), 4); fclose($r); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46577&edit=1