Code to accelerate HTTP downloads. Most newer browsers since 1998/1999 have been equipped to support the HTTP 1.1 standard known as "content-encoding". Essentially the browser indicates to the server that it can accept "content encoding" and if the server is capable it will then compress the data and transmit it. The browser decompresses it and then renders the page.
PclZip library offers compression and extraction functions for Zip formatted archives (WinZip, PKZIP). PclZip gives you the ability to manipulate zip formatted arhives. You can create an archive, list the content and extract all its content in the file system.
PclTar library offers archive and extraction functions using GNU TAR format. The archives created by PclTar are readeable by most of gzip/tar applications and by the Windows WinZip application.
