Supporting the MAFF web archive format, based on ZIP

[Paolo Amadini]

On 14/03/2010 16.32, Matthias Grimrath wrote:
> On Samstag 13 März 2010, Paolo Amadini wrote:
>> I'd like to know if there is interest in supporting the MAFF file
>> format in Konqueror.
> 
> I did the last major work on the webarchiver. I already thought about 
> switching to ZIP format and somehow store other metadata because 
> currently WAR achives have some unfixable shortcomings. But now I see 
> MAFF addresses these things. Yes I am interested :-)

Fantastic! I'm glad MAFF goes in the direction you already foreseen :-)

I still don't know the code well enough to be of immediate help,
but if you want to start and get an idea of what would need to be
done to implement MAFF, I'm able to answer any questions you might
have on the file format. There are several conformance levels in
the specification, "elementary" being probably the easiest to
implement and "normal" being the one that has the best guarantees
on interoperability. Maybe the implementation can start with the
former and move towards the latter with successive refinements,
let me know if you think this makes sense.

Best regards,
Paolo