Compress Function

Article
06/14/2022

Compresses data given the compression context, input buffer, output buffer, and compression level.

Syntax

HRESULT WINAPI Compress(  
   IN OUT PVOID context,  
   IN CONST BYTE* input_buffer,  
   IN LONG input_buffer_size,  
   IN PBYTE output_buffer,  
   IN LONG output_buffer_size,  
   OUT PLONG input_used,  
   OUT PLONG output_used,  
   IN INT compression_level  
);

Parameters

context
[IN][OUT] Pointer to the new compression context.

input_buffer
[IN] Pointer to the input buffer.

input_buffer_size
[IN] The size of the input buffer.

output_buffer
[IN] Pointer to the output buffer.

output_buffer_size
[IN] Size of the output buffer.

input_used
[IN] Amount of input buffer used.

output_used
[OUT] Amount of output buffer used.

compression_level
[IN] Compression level (1…10).

Return Value

An HRESULT. Possible values include, but are not limited to, those in the following table.

Value	Description
S_OK	Indicates that the operation was successful.

Remarks

When used with IIS, this method is called repeatedly until all the data required to fulfill the request is compressed.

Requirements

Type	Description
Client	- IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista - IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 - IIS 8.0 on Windows 8 - IIS 10.0 on Windows 10
Server	- IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 - IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 - IIS 8.0 on Windows Server 2012 - IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 - IIS 10.0 on Windows Server 2016
Product	- IIS 7.0, IIS 7.5, IIS 8.0, IIS 8.5, IIS 10.0 - IIS Express 7.5, IIS Express 8.0, IIS Express 10.0
Header	Httpcompression.h