webloc

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webloc

.webloc to .url converter in Go.

Recursively converts all files in path.

Dependencies

• howett.net/plist

Install

go get github.com/tischda/webloc

Usage

Usage: webloc.exe [options] path
  path: the path to process
  -delete=true: delete .webloc files after conversion
  -noop=false: decode urls, but do not change file system

Example:

u:\>webloc.exe -noop data
http://www.kekaosx.com/en/
https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-home-end-button-for-external-keyboard-mac/
http://coffeescript.org/

Limitations

• Does not read resource forks, only data in plist file

References

• https://github.com/DHowett/go-plist
• https://github.com/ggilder/weirdfs
• http://www.macdisk.com/macforken.php
• http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1762250&seqNum=5
• http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040728185233128

Analyzing weblocs

What do we have here?

hansolo:webloc daniel$ ls -l@
total 56
-rw-r--r--  1 daniel  staff  2143 Mar 14 12:45 README.md
drwxr-xr-x  3 daniel  staff   102 Mar 14 12:33 bin
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 daniel  staff    79 Mar 14 10:43 binary-plist.webloc
	com.apple.FinderInfo	  32
	com.apple.ResourceFork	 536
	com.apple.quarantine	  25
-rw-r--r--  1 daniel  staff   550 Mar 14 12:42 decode.go
-rw-r--r--  1 daniel  staff   675 Mar 14 10:47 webloc.iml
-rw-r--r--@ 1 daniel  staff   247 Mar 14 10:43 xml-content.webloc
	com.apple.FinderInfo	  32
	com.apple.ResourceFork	 454
	com.apple.quarantine	  31

What's in it?

hansolo:~ daniel$ hexdump -C binary-plist.webloc
00000000  62 70 6c 69 73 74 30 30  d1 01 02 53 55 52 4c 5f  |bplist00...SURL_|
00000010  10 1a 68 74 74 70 3a 2f  2f 77 77 77 2e 6b 65 6b  |..http://www.kek|
00000020  61 6f 73 78 2e 63 6f 6d  2f 65 6e 2f 08 0b 0f 00  |aosx.com/en/....|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00  |................|
00000040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 2c     |..............,|
0000004f

What's really in it?

hansolo:~ daniel$ derez binary-plist.webloc
data 'drag' (128) {
    $"0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0003"            /* ................ */
    $"5445 5854 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000"            /* TEXT............ */
    $"7572 6C20 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000"            /* url ............ */
    $"7572 6C6E 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000"            /* urln............ */
};

data 'url ' (256) {
    $"6874 7470 3A2F 2F77 7777 2E6B 656B 616F"            /* http://www.kekao */
    $"7378 2E63 6F6D 2F65 6E2F"                           /* sx.com/en/ */
};

data 'TEXT' (256) {
    $"6874 7470 3A2F 2F77 7777 2E6B 656B 616F"            /* http://www.kekao */
    $"7378 2E63 6F6D 2F65 6E2F"                           /* sx.com/en/ */
};

data 'urln' (256) {
    $"4B65 6B61 202D 2074 6865 2066 7265 6520"            /* Keka - the free  */
    $"4D61 6320 4F53 2058 2066 696C 6520 6172"            /* Mac OS X file ar */
    $"6368 6976 6572"                                     /* chiver */
};

Only the name?

hansolo:webloc daniel$ DeRez -e -only 'urln' binary-plist.webloc
data 'urln' (256) {
    $"4B65 6B61 202D 2074 6865 2066 7265 6520"            /* Keka - the free  */
    $"4D61 6320 4F53 2058 2066 696C 6520 6172"            /* Mac OS X file ar */
    $"6368 6976 6572"                                     /* chiver */
};