add error tolerrance for corrupted gzip files

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Digital Forensics Virtual File System (dfVFS)

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Open joachimmetz opened 9 years ago

joachimmetz commented 9 years ago

Unable to decompress zlib compressed stream with error: Error -3 while decompressing: invalid distance too far back.

zcat test.gz 
<HTML>
...

gzip: test.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: test.gz: invalid compressed data--length error

joachimmetz commented 9 years ago

Seems to happen quite often in MSIE temporary Internet files. Sometimes there is partial data.

joachimmetz commented 5 years ago