RUSTSEC-2021-0133 (unmaintained) on 2021-12-25: cargo-download is unmaintained

The cargo download subcommand (via cargo-download crate) is broken and maintainer has disappeared from GitHub and hasn't had any commits for a year.

Using this downloader will result to corrupted crates.

Maintainer has not responded to maintenance takeover.

Just use wget / curl directly.

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To review the actual code of the crate, it's best to use cargo crev open cargo-download. Alternatively, you can download the tarball of cargo-download v0.1.2 or view the source online.