A tool to download CSAF documents from CSAF providers.
csaf_downloader [OPTIONS] domain...
Application Options:
-d, --directory=DIR DIRectory to store the downloaded files in
--insecure Do not check TLS certificates from provider
--ignoresigcheck Ignore signature check results, just warn on mismatch
--version Display version of the binary
-v, --verbose Verbose output
-r, --rate= The average upper limit of https operations per second (defaults to unlimited)
-w, --worker=NUM NUMber of concurrent downloads (default: 2)
-H, --header= One or more extra HTTP header fields
--validator=URL URL to validate documents remotely
--validatorcache=FILE FILE to cache remote validations
--validatorpreset= One or more presets to validate remotely (default: mandatory)
Help Options:
-h, --help Show this help message
Will download all CSAF documents for the given domains, by trying each as a CSAF provider.
If a domain starts with https:// it is instead considered a direct URL to the provider-metadata.json and downloading procedes from there.
Increasing the number of workers opens more connections to the web servers to download more advisories at once. This may improve the overall speed of the download. However, since this also increases the load on the servers, their administrators could have taken countermeasures to limit this.