WebArchiveX Component Set

Ever thought how "Save as Web Archive (MHT)" works? 

Ever thought how "Save as Web Archive (MHT)" works? Ever wanted to extract this functionality from Internet Explorer and incorporate it in your own applications? Ever needed a super-easy-to-install module that doesn't depend on any other program or library? If the answer is yes WebArchiveX™ Component was designed especially for you.

WebArchiveX builds web archives (MHT)^* and it does it much better than "Save as web archive MHT" of Microsoft Internet Explorer! Rich WebArchiveX API lets you tap the functionality of professional web archiving from your own application within minutes. WebArchiveX COM is a full-featured flexible tool that, unlike Internet Explorer, works independently of any other program software or library.  

WebArchiveX can be used in any type of application and is compatible with a wide range of programming languages and environments. This help provides samples for .NET C#, C++, Java Script, Visual Basic and ASP (Active Server Pages). WebArchiveX package includes sample projects for C++ and Visual Basic. 

Please see the WebArchiveX samples page to get a quick impression of what WebArchiveX does.

Kindly refer to Appendix A for a brief history of WebArchiveX.

With WebArchiveX you can:

• Build web archive MHT files including HTML, style sheets, JavaScript, XML, XSL, Sound files (e.g. WAV), Office files (e.g. DOC), PDF files and many many more
• Build self-updateable forms using MakeArchiveFromDoc (for details please see "Testform" sample in the "Samples \ JavaScript" directory of the WebArchiveX distribution)
• Create MHT web archive files "on the fly" in ASP and write them directly into Response using MakeArchiveStream
• Encrypt, Decrypt and Email web archive files
• Detect and archive dynamically loaded images in HTML and scripts (using the Image object)
• Apply custom changes using AddPreParsingFilter and AddPostParsingFilter methods
• Make MHT from a dynamically modified HTML document object using MakeArchiveFromDoc method
• Add files manually using AddFile method
• Use your own custom tags using AddResourceTag method
• Use custom MIME types using AddMimeType method
• Use custom encoding using SetCharset method
• Control level of spidering using SpiderLevel property
• Control logging using LogLevel and LogFile properties
• Receive progress callbacks using CallbackWindow, CallbackMessageID, InfoWindow and InfoMessageID properties

WebArchiveX API fully supports:

• Dynamic HTML
• All MIME types
• External and internal frames
• External and internal scripts and style sheets
• Multi-threaded environments
• All programming languages that support COM
• All character sets

• Uwe Thaden from PRIMAsoftware (for finding a very elusive bug in spidering mechanism)
• R&D team of C.D.I. Systems (1992) Ltd (for an extensive testing in ASP environment)
• Mark Malamut from Fulcrum Point Technologies (for the idea of MakeArchiveFromDoc)
• Cheng Tan from Bay Prospector (for pointing out the problem of retrieving files from ISAPI. The bug was fixed in v4.0)
• George Gueorgiev from Verity, Inc. (for help and understanding during development of version 5.5)
• Kevin Huck (for testing betas of version 5.5)
• Elmar Denkmann from Baywotch, GmbH. (for excellent advises and pedantic tests of version 6.0)

* Web Archive MHT is a single file that, unlike regular HTML, embodies all needed resources such as frames, linked documents, images, style sheets and scripts. In fact you can store whole websites into a single web archive MHT. Web archive MHT is an Internet standard for sending HTML documents within MIME formatted archives/messages. HTML documents, images, scripts etc. are included as body parts and are referenced by URLs in the archive/message. Packing web pages into MHT web archive avoids problems such as missing images, styles or scripts when you publish your documents on the Web or send them by email.

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