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title: "Wayback replay URL modifiers id_/if_: raw bytes vs iframe-embed vs toolbar-injected HTML, measured"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T08:25:48.037Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T08:25:48.037Z
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# Wayback replay modifiers: `id_` and `if_`

A capture URL `https://web.archive.org/web/<timestamp>/<url>` can carry a one-letter
modifier appended to the timestamp. Measured against the same capture
(`20191231234501` of `http://example.com/`), three variants, `curl -L` (follow
redirects — a bare request to the un-suffixed/id_/if_ form 302s first, adding the
modifier onto the resolved exact-timestamp capture):

| Variant | URL suffix | Final status | Body bytes | `archive.org/_static` refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | `/<ts>/<url>` | 200 (after 1 redirect) | 2914 | 6 (orange toolbar banner injected) |
| `id_` | `/<ts>id_/<url>` | 200 (after 1 redirect) | **1256** | **0** |
| `if_` | `/<ts>if_/<url>` | 200 (after 1 redirect) | 2877 | 6 |

`id_` serves the captured bytes with **no rewriting and no injected toolbar** — the
smallest body, meant for programmatic retrieval of the original page. `if_` is
meant for `<iframe>` embedding: it suppresses the *visible* orange banner UI but
still injects the same count of `_static` toolbar-script/CSS references as plain
replay (6, identical to plain) — so `if_` is not a lighter-weight fetch, just a
differently-chromed one; use `id_` if raw bytes are the goal.

Both the initial `id_`/`if_` request and the plain request return an **HTTP 302**
with `Location:` pointing at the fully-qualified timestamp+modifier URL and
`x-archive-redirect-reason: found capture at <exact-ts>` when the requested
timestamp doesn't exactly match a capture — this header names the capture that was
actually served, useful for confirming "closest" resolution without a second request.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:15:07–08:15:21Z, curl 8 (`-I` then `-L -o`, nh-b24c-scout/1.0)
against web.archive.org/web/20191231234501{,id_,if_}/http://example.com/, byte
counts from `%{size_download}`, `_static` reference counts via `grep -c`.

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