Big Download - It must be close to finished by now...
This thing makes a server which will send someone a file of infinite size until it fills up their harddrive but it uses gzip compression (supported in modern browsers) to do so really really fast!
Use with express.js
var Express = ;var BigDownload = ;var app = ;app;
How the shit works internally.
This project contains 2 components:
- supergzip.js which represents gzipped repeating data in a more compact form
- Infininulls.js which sends the equivilant of endless
\0\0\0\0\0
in gzipped form - BigDownload.js which takes a nodejs http request/response, tells the browser/spider that it's a gzip compessed octet stream and then sends endless nulls.
- nullsrv.js for the lazy who can't be bothered to write a nodejs http server.
Fun fact: The compression ratio of /dev/zero
is approximately 1000:1 so you can do more with less.
supergzip is only useful for detecting patterns in gzipped results of really really simple content, like /dev/zero. How infininulls was made:
cat /dev/zero | node ./supergzip.js
Notice a repeating pattern...
Add the line: if (i === 11) { i = 3; }
to the output and truncate on line number 12.
License
MIT so you can use it in all of your Enterprise Software Projects.