.webarchive format?

[Scott]

On 05/07/2006 10:41 AM, * Lee Revell spake thusly:
> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:35 -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
>> On Sunday 07 May 2006 12:19 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
>>> I just got a mail from a Mac user with an attachment that's supposed to
>>> be a web page, but it's in this a bizarre ".webarchive" binary format
>>> that I've never seen and Firefox can't open.  Anyone know WTF it is?
>>>
>>> What kind of idiot would create a proprietary format to solve such a
>>> non-problem?
>> As I recall, the idiot in question is Microsoft.  The webarchive format is an 
>> html file with binary elements, like images, encoded right into it rather 
>> than saved separately.
>>
> 
> It seems to be worse than that.  Running strings on it does not reveal
> any HTML tags, only URL targets are visible.  Apparently the HTML part
> is compressed.


That's the point of webarchives.  They combine the elements of a web
page into a single file.   There is one for Firefox and Konqueror as well.

In this case (as was my guess) .webarchive is in fact not a Microsoft
format, but an Safari (Apple Mac OS X web browser) format.


http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/webarchive


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