What it can do
- Remove a printable transport wrapper
- Recognize the Gzip header
- Inflate the original content
How the recipe works
From Base64
Decode Base64 to raw compressed bytes.
Gunzip
Decompress the Gzip member.
Demonstration
Sample input
H4sIAAAAAAAAE/NJrEwtSk1RSM7PLShKLS7OzM9TKM8vyi7WAwCeqi7oGgAAAA==Expected result
Layered compression works.When to use it
- API payloads
- Encoded log fields
- Multi-layer data exercises
Adapt it
Use Zlib Inflate or Raw Inflate when the compressed stream does not contain a Gzip header.
Source and verification
Adapted from GCHQ CyberChef project and examples. The explanation and sample are written for Serialize, use synthetic or documentation-safe data, and are checked against the current operation catalogue. The workflow runs locally without an external API call.