How to read a Zip file in PL/SQL program

Hi,
I was Reading a ".csv" file from a web URL eg. "www.aba.com/zxc.csv" in my PL/SQL procedure using UTL_HTTP package and loading data in my DB.
Now that file is in .zip format, is there any way that I can still read that .csv.zip file through my PL/SQL procedure. Because now I have to download it first then
unzip it and then I am loading it into my DB using UTL_FILE package instead I want to do it automatically as I was doing it before when it was not zipped.
Thanks & Regards
Sanjay

Peters solution is a great, nice alternative - you should consider it.
But your present solution reads the data from the web using UTL_HTTP into a CLOB I presume? So you are not hitting the file system at all?
If it is not an option for you to go to the file system, then it is possible that you can use [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25788/u_compr.htm#BGBBCDDI]UTL_COMPRESS package.
That is (maybe) a possibility if the zip file only contains one file - it cannot handle if the zip file is a zip archive with several files in it.
You could try doing your UTL_HTTP load into a BLOB and then call UTL_COMPRESS.LZ_UNCOMPRESS to unzip that BLOB into another BLOB.
I'm not guaranteeing it will work, but it may be worth a try if you cannot do it Peters way ;-)

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