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Open a .webarchive on the iphone?

Does anyone know if you can programmatically open a .webarchive on the iPhone? A .webarchive is Safari's way of packaging up a webpage and it's associated resources into a single file.

I tried creating one and browsing to a link to one in mobile safari, but it didn't work....

Note: I was kind of hoping this could be done without a 3rd party app, as it'd be a nice way to package up a WebApp for use on the iphone without needing a third party tool.

Solution

  • webarchive is supported on iOS. Just load it on UIWebView. It just works!

    for loading a webarchive on your bundle, just do

    NSURL *fileURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"myFile"
     withExtension:@"webarchive"];

[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:fileURL]];

    webview is your UIWebview