Bug 87215

Summary: Bookmark webpage as web archive
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Roland Seuhs <r>
Component: webarchiverpluginAssignee: Malte Starostik <malte>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Roland Seuhs 2004-08-14 20:15:33 UTC 
Version:           3.2.1 (using KDE 3.2.1, SuSE)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.104-default

Very often, people bookmark webpages for archival purposes, i.e. the information on it doesn't change and they don't care at all about any updates to that websites - they just want to find it again when they need some information on that webpage.

It would be great if you could bookmark webpages as a web archive, which would mean Konqueror would use the existing tool to create a *.war file and then bookmark that *.war file on the local disk.

Of course users can do the same manually, but it's a lot of hassle, you have to mantain a second file-hierarchy, etc. etc. It would be great if that could be done automatically.

I just checked my existing bookmarks and I'd estimate that about half of them would have been better saved as archive because the information on them is static and will eventually be lost because no webpage lifes forever.
Comment 1 Roland Wolters 2007-05-23 18:18:57 UTC 
This is even more useful for people travelling a lot: if I need a set of my bookmarked pages at my hand but have no internet connection then I'm lost.

But with a function like "create & bookmark as a local copy" this problem would be obsolete.
The information could be saved at
~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/archives or similar.

The only problem I see here is that the archive would have to be deleted also if the bookmark would be deleted. However that could be achieved by checking the bookmark previously for a link to the given directory.