NBN ISO 28500:2020

This document specifies the WARC file format:
— to store both the payload content and control information from mainstream Internet application layer protocols, such as the HTTP, DNS, and FTP
— to store arbitrary metadata linked to other stored data (e.g. subject classifier, discovered language, encoding)
— to support data compression and maintain data record integrity
— to store all control information from the harvesting protocol (e.g. request headers), not just response information
— to store the results of data transformations linked to other stored data
— to store a duplicate detection event linked to other stored data (to reduce storage in the presence of identical or substantially similar resources)
— to be extended without disruption to existing functionality
— to support handling of overly long records by truncation or segmentation, where desired.