GZip-kb Module

1 Introduction

The GZIP-kb module recognizes and validates the Gzip (GNU zip) format. [GZip].

The module is invoked by the:

    jhove ... -m GZIP-kb ...
  

command line option.

The GZIP-kb module recognizes and validates GZip version 4.3. It also supports multiple member GZip files. This module uses the JWAT library for GZip parsing.

This module doesn't have configurable parameters.

2 Coverage

The GZIP-kb module recognizes and validates the following public profiles:

3 Well-Formedness

The GZip module checks well-formedness.

4 Validity

The following criteria must be met by a GZip file for JHOVE to consider it valid:

5 Representation Information

The MIME type is reported as: application/gzip [RFC 6713]. Application/x-gzip is also supported

In addition to the standard JHOVE representation information, the following GZip-specific properties are reported:

6 Additional Module Properties