How to open a zip file on ajax return to get the json content?

Question

I've uploaded a zip file to S3. The zip file contains a compressed json file.

How do I open this zip file and get the json content?

$.ajax({
                url: "url/list.zip",
                data: {},
                type: "GET",
                success: function(data) {
                    var result = JSON.parse(data);
                    $.each(result, function(i, res) {
                        map[res.s] = res;
                        results.push(res.s);
                    });
                }
            });

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2095697/unzip-files-using-javascript — zavg, May 20 '13 at 14:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '20 at 11:14

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I did it with PHP and this header:

header('Content-Encoding: gzip');

It works fine. Thanks

answered Jun 10 '20 at 11:14

signoredellarete

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '13 at 14:45

One solution I found was to set the proper metadata for the file. Browsers will automatically do its thing to decompress and get you the content.

ie:

My gzip file had a json file inside. I set the content-type to "text/plain" and encoding to "gzip". I was able to get the data with no problems.

FYI I am doing all this uploading/downloading via Amazon S3.

How to open a zip file on ajax return to get the json content?

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