RFR: 8244706: GZIP "OS" header flag hard-coded to 0 instead of 255 (RFC 1952 non-compliance) [v4]

[Brent Christian]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:39:11 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review and a sponsor for this patch which fixes the issue reported in
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8244706?
>> The commit here sets the `OS` header flag to `255` (which represents `unknown`) as noted in [1]. A new test has been
>> included in this commit to verify the change. Furthermore, this doesn't impact the `java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream`
>> since it ignores [2] this header value while reading the headers from the stream.  [1]
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952#page-7 [2]
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/zip/GZIPInputStream.java#L173
>
> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove unintended file commit

Reviewed.  Thanks for reworking the change into the existing out.write() call.

Marked as reviewed by bchristi (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/130