- It seems reasonable that browsers would indicate the original url for the webpage, and which browser was used to save it, but this is not commonly the case.
- To identify possible distinguishing information, I saved a completely blank 0-byte text file as blank.htm, and tried opening/saving it with Internet Explorer/Firefox/Chrome. Here are the results:
- (Note: any LFs have been replaced with CRLFs:)
- (Note: if an htm/html file is saved directly, as a download, the web browser leaves no marks.)
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[blank IE.htm][Internet Explorer 11]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><META content="IE=5.0000" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 11.00.9600.19377"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>
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[blank Firefox.htm][Firefox 67]
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body></body></html>
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[blank Chrome.htm][Chrome 75]
<!-- saved from url=(0037)file:///C:/Users/me/Desktop/blank.htm -->
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></head><body></body></html>
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- Internet Explorer/Firefox use CRLFs for line breaks, whereas Chrome uses LFs for line breaks.
- Internet Explorer/Firefox create htm files, whereas Chrome creates html files.
- Here is some code based on the tag case/line break findings:
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q:: ;htm/html files - get web browser that saved it
;vDir1 := "C:\Users\" A_UserName "\Documents"
vDir1 := "C:\Users\" A_UserName "\Downloads"
vOutput := ""
Loop Files, % vDir1 "\*", % "F"
{
vPath := A_LoopFileFullPath
SplitPath, vPath, vName, vDir, vExt, vNameNoExt, vDrive
if !(vExt = "htm") && !(vExt = "html")
continue
vOutput .= FileGetWebBrowser(vPath) "`t" vPath "`r`n"
}
Clipboard := vOutput
MsgBox, % "done"
return
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;note: IE/Firefox typically create .htm files
;note: Chrome typically creates .html files
;note: a rough function
FileGetWebBrowser(vPath)
{
local
FileRead, vText, % vPath
if InStr(vText, "<HTML", 1) ;upper case in Internet Explorer (lower case in Firefox/Chrome)
return "Internet Explorer"
else if InStr(vText, ">`r`n<") ;Firefox uses CRLFs
return "Firefox"
else
return "Chrome"
}