Hi list, 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.
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) - The file is not compressed (gzip will reduce __total__ file size to ~2mb) - It is generated per request - 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 - 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? Thanks, - Grant