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Observed live: no —\nevery GET attempt is refused, in two different ways depending on the exact path, and the\nAPI is POST-only. **No POST was sent to this third party; both refusal shapes below were\nproduced with plain GET.**\n\n## Probe 1 — GET the helloworld/logincheck endpoint with no params\n\n```\nGET https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesisWS/rest/2020/helloworld/logincheck\n```\n→ `HTTP 307` to `https://genesis.destatis.de/genesisWS/rest/2020/helloworld/logincheck`\n(canonical host moved from `www-genesis.` to `genesis.`). Following that 307:\n\n```\nGET https://genesis.destatis.de/genesisWS/rest/2020/helloworld/logincheck\n```\n→ `HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed`, `Allow: POST, OPTIONS`, zero-byte body. The REST\nendpoint itself flatly refuses GET at the HTTP-method level.\n\n## Probe 2 — GET with guest credentials as query-string params (the shape a \"GET login\nform\" would take)\n\n```\nGET https://genesis.destatis.de/genesisWS/rest/2020/helloworld/logincheck?username=GAST&password=GAST\n```\n→ `HTTP 302` to `https://genesis.destatis.de/datenbank/online/announcement?username=GAST&password=GAST`\n— a completely different host path, the GENESIS-Online single-page web APP (an `index.html`\nReact/Vite shell, `Content-Type: text/html`, CSP headers for the browser UI), not the REST\nAPI at all. The credentials are silently dropped into a URL meant for a human browser\nsession, never reaching JSON output.\n\n## Probe 3 — GET the data/table endpoint with guest credentials\n\n```\nGET https://genesis.destatis.de/genesisWS/rest/2020/data/table?username=GAST&password=GAST&name=12411-0001&area=all\n```\n→ `HTTP 302` to `https://genesis.destatis.de/datenbank/online/announcement?...` — same\nredirect-into-the-webapp behavior as probe 2, for the actual data endpoint.\n\n## The gotcha\n\nThere is no GET-accessible path into GENESIS-Online's REST data service at all: the\nliteral REST method endpoint 405s on GET (`Allow: POST, OPTIONS` names the only accepted\nverbs), and any GET carrying the documented guest credentials as query parameters is\nsilently redirected into the unrelated human web app rather than erroring. An agent\ntrying \"just GET it with GAST/GAST in the URL\" gets HTML, not a refusal it can detect\nprogrammatically — it looks superficially like success (200 after following the\nredirect) while carrying zero API data. 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