Re: .webloc files and Safari (newbie)
Re: .webloc files and Safari (newbie)
- Subject: Re: .webloc files and Safari (newbie)
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:26:41 -0500
On Dec 8, 2003, at 1:00, email@hidden wrote:
On Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 11:20 PM, jay wrote:
Working on a simple droplet as an excersize and I want it to be able
to
accept drags from Safari. I assumed that the .webloc files you get
when
you drag a url from Safari to the Finder would contain a string of the
url. But they're 0 byte files. How exactly do these work?
Are you looking in the resource fork or the data fork? I think Webloc
files store there info in the resource fork.
No, the contents are in the data fork (as would make sense, given that
Apple is to all appearances trying to deprecate the resource fork).
They're also much more than just the URL, though. I just grabbed one
and the first 256 bytes are almost all zeroes. Then there's 56 more
bytes of mostly inobvious information. Then the URL, a couple extra
bytes, the URL again and several more mostly-unreadable bytes. You know
what it looks like? An alias record, IIRC.
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