19 Jun 2018 / 1 min read

Qualys SSL labs - scanning your site's ssl quality from the command line

I've always used a great tool provided by Qualys SSL Labs https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ to scan the quality of webservers' SSL setup.

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Qualys SSL labs - scanning your site's ssl quality from the command line

I've always used a great tool provided by Qualys SSL Labs https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ to scan the quality of webservers' SSL setup.

Browsing github I found out that the tool, besides being opensource, has also been turned into a docker container!

Link to the project https://github.com/jumanjihouse/docker-ssllabs-scan

In short, add this alias to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

bash

alias ssllabs-scan='docker run --rm -it jumanjiman/ssllabs-scan:latest'

Log out of the session and back in.

Now you can run the ssl quality scan like this:

bash

samuele@MacBook-Pro-di-Samuele ➜  ~ ssllabs-scan -grade https://www.nutellino.it
2018/06/19 06:54:05 [INFO] SSL Labs v1.32.2 (criteria version 2009p)
2018/06/19 06:54:05 [NOTICE] Server message: This assessment service is provided free of charge by Qualys SSL Labs, subject to our terms and conditions: https://www.ssllabs.com/about/terms.html
2018/06/19 06:54:07 [INFO] Assessment starting: https://www.nutellino.it
2018/06/19 06:55:17 [INFO] Assessment complete: https://www.nutellino.it (1 host in 61 seconds)
    46.101.215.250: A
"https://www.nutellino.it": "A"

2018/06/19 06:55:17 [INFO] All assessments complete; shutting down

That's it! :)