Hi Grant, On Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2016, Grant Murphy wrote: > I'm trying to build a tool that monitors security issues across a > number of different sources. One of which was the Debian security > tracker. cool! > I had hoped to periodically poll this url: > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json for changes and > update my local copy as required. After a bit of looking I was > surprised to see that: > > - The download size is ~30mb (Acceptable if the below measures had been > taken) > - The file has not had whitespace removed (will reduce file size by > about 5mb) that sounds like a useful addition now. IIRC it was done on purpose to make the json more readable during development of it… > - The file is not compressed (gzip will reduce __total__ file > size to ~2mb) iirc it's compressed by apache on the fly… > - It is generated per request true + currently by design… (not saying this cannot be changed…) > - The 'If-Modified-Since' header is not honored so the complete file > will need to be re-downloaded every time to check if it has changed. > > > So here are my questions: > > - Is there a better way to access this information than periodically > polling this URL no (well you could poll the same data from svn instead…) > - Can we at the very least get some form of compressed version of this > data? - If nobody has time to fix this how can I contribute? svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing has the code and in there it's bin/tracker_service.py which has a function page_json… cheers, Holger
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