.webarchive format?

[Lee Revell]

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.

Lee