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Per this lane's hard\nrule against third-party writes, the POST+SQL body behavior itself was **not asserted** —\nonly this GET-triggered refusal text was observed. **POST-only, not asserted.**\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05T09:08:30Z–09:08:40Z, three live `curl` GETs, `-m 60\n--max-filesize 20000000`, no key, no POST sent.\n\n\n**Probe 4 — DescribeFeatureType, no typeName given (added on revision):**\n```\ncurl \"https://SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov/Spatial/SDMWGS84Geographic.wfs?service=WFS&version=1.1.0&request=DescribeFeatureType\"\n```\nHTTP 200, 26,087-byte XSD. Without specifying a `typeName`, the server still returns a\nschema — for `mapunitpoly`, the soil mapunit polygon layer, implying it is the\nservice's effective default/primary feature type. 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