Webarchive

This article is about Safari's webarchive file format. For web archiving, see web archiving. For other uses, see Web archive (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Web ARChive.
Web archive
Filename extension
.webarchive
Internet media type
application/x-webarchive
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)com.apple.webarchive
Type of formatweb page file archive
Extended fromApple Binary Property List

webarchive is a Web archive file format available on macOS and Windows for saving and reviewing complete web pages using the Safari web browser.[1] The webarchive format differs from a standalone HTML file because it also saves linked files such as images, CSS, and JavaScript.[2] The webarchive format is a concatenation of source files with filenames saved in the binary plist format using NSKeyedArchiver.[citation needed] Support for webarchive documents was added in Safari 4 Beta on Windows and is included in subsequent versions. Safari in iOS 13 (iPhone and iPad) has support for web archive files.[3] Previously there was a third party iOS app called Web Archive Viewer that provided this functionality.

  1. ^ Frakes, Dan. "De-archive Web Archives". Macworld. IDG Communications. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  2. ^ Arnott, Nick (28 April 2013). "Apple declines to fix vulnerability in Safari's Web Archive files, likely because it requires user action to exploit". iMore. Mobile Nations. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  3. ^ "iOS and IPadOS 13 Review". MacStories. Retrieved 25 September 2019.