Description:

RFC 1951:

This is a lossless compressed data format that compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. The data can be produced or consumed, even for an arbitrarily long sequentially presented input data stream, using only an a priori bounded amount of intermediate storage.

Glossary:

RFCs:

[RFC 1951] DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3.

[RFC 3749] Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods.