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Of course you can download them manually from :
http://repository.eid.belgium.be/index.php?lang=en
The certificate list is actually available over here:
http://certs.eid.belgium.be/
Or you can use a download manager.
But it's far more fun to use a free script you can use to automate the download.
Here you go:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Original Author: Peter Geelen
# e-mail:
#peter@fim2010.be
# Web: blog.identityunderground.be
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Set base parameters
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$sourceURL="http://certs.eid.belgium.be/"
$sourceEXT="crt"
$destination="D:\Downloads\eID\allcerts"
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# generate list of current eID certs
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#open web connection
$webclient=
New-Object Net.Webclient
$htmlData
= $webclient.DownloadString("$sourceURL")
#skip header info
$index=
$htmlData.IndexOf("Description")
$htmlData
= $htmlData.substring($index)
#find first cert URL (after header info)
$startpos= $htmlData.IndexOf("a href")
$fileList
= @()
$datelist= @()
while ($startpos -ge 0)
{
$htmlData
= $htmlData.substring($startpos+8)
$endpos
= $htmlData.IndexOf(">")
$filename
= $htmlData.Substring(0,$endpos-1)
$startpos
)
= $htmlData.IndexOf("right"">")
$htmlData
= $htmlData.substring($startpos+7)
$endpos
= $htmlData.IndexOf(" <")
$date
= $htmlData.Substring(0,$endpos)
if ($filename.Contains($sourceEXT))
{
$fileList
+= $filename
$datelist
+= $date
}
$startpos = $htmlData.IndexOf("a href")
}
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# download all current eID certs
# from URL
# to local folder
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$counter= 0
foreach ($file
in $fileList)
{
$from=
$sourceURL +
"/" +$file
$to=
$destination +
"\" +$file
$to
$region=
[Globalization.CultureInfo]::CreateSpecificCulture('en-US')
$webclient.DownloadFile($from,
$to)
$creationdate=
[datetime]::parseexact($datelist[$counter].Trim(),"dd-MMM-yyyy
HH:mm",$region)
#$creationdate
#set creation date to original timestamp
Get-Item$to
| % {
$_.CreationTime
= $creationdate }
$counter+=1
}
And you get a free add-on to download the CRLs.
Because: fun thing about this script is: you can reuse it to download the CRL and delta CRL files from : http://crl.eid.belgium.be/
You just need to adapt the Source URL parameter and the file extension (crl) to download.