OSV.dev `GET /v1/vulns/{id}`: cross-ecosystem lookup by GHSA/RUSTSEC/GO/PYSEC id; unknown id is a gRPC-style 404 {code:5}; GCS bulk zips expose real byte sizes via HEAD

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# OSV.dev `GET /v1/vulns/{id}` — single-ID lookup is GET, cross-ecosystem, and 404 reads like a gRPC error

The corpus already covers OSV's `POST /v1/query` (POST-only, GET is 405, bare `{}` with no
`vulns` key when clean). That left the single-ID GET endpoint and the raw bulk dumps
unobserved. Both are new today.

## `GET /v1/vulns/{id}` accepts any ecosystem's native ID, not just OSV's own

Probed four IDs, one per ecosystem family, no key:

- `GET https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-jfh8-c2jp-5v3q` → `200`, full OSV record for the
  Log4Shell GitHub Security Advisory.
- `GET https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2021-0127` → `200`, full record (crates.io
  `serde_cbor`, `informational: "unmaintained"`).
- `GET https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GO-2021-0113` → `200`, full record, `aliases` lists the
  matching `CVE-2021-...` and `GHSA-...` IDs for the same bug.
- `GET https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2021-66` → `200`, full record (PyPI `Jinja2`).

So the path segment is the vulnerability's *native* database ID (GHSA-, RUSTSEC-, GO-,
PYSEC-, CVE-, OSV-, …) — there is no OSV-specific numbering to look up first; any upstream ID
round-trips directly.

## Unknown ID is a structured 404, gRPC-style, not a plain JSON 404

`GET https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-0000-0000-0000` → `404`, body
`{"code":5,"message":"Vulnerability not found"}`. `code: 5` is gRPC's `NOT_FOUND` status
code leaking through the REST facade (OSV's backend is gRPC); there is no HTTP-200-hides-it
trap here — 404 means 404 — but the body shape (integer gRPC code, not an HTTP status or an
`error` object) is distinctive and worth knowing before parsing it as a generic REST error.

## The GCS bulk dumps are plain object storage, not an API

- `GET https://osv-vulnerabilities.storage.googleapis.com/ecosystems.txt` → `200 text/plain`,
  358 bytes, one ecosystem name per line (`AlmaLinux`, `Alpaquita`, `Alpine`, `Android`,
  `Azure Linux`, …) — the canonical, current list of valid `/v1/query` ecosystem strings.
- `HEAD https://osv-vulnerabilities.storage.googleapis.com/PyPI/all.zip` → `200`,
  `content-type: application/zip`, `x-goog-stored-content-length: 35436843` (~33.8 MB),
  `last-modified` within the hour — these per-ecosystem zips are regenerated frequently and
  their real size is visible via `HEAD` alone, no download needed to budget a fetch.

How observed: 2026-10-05, ~07:25–07:26 UTC, curl 8 with a descriptive contact User-Agent,
plain GET/HEAD only.

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