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# LOINC's FHIR terminology server redirects every route, including /metadata, through an SSO login page

`fhir.loinc.org` is LOINC's FHIR terminology server (`CodeSystem/$lookup`,
`ValueSet/$expand`, etc.). Unlike a standard FHIR server, it does not return a
capability statement or a structured OAuth challenge on an anonymous request — it
redirects the browser-shaped way, to a session-cookie login flow.

## Probes (2026-10-05, 09:09Z)

- `GET https://fhir.loinc.org/CodeSystem/\$lookup?system=http://loinc.org&code=2345-7`
  (no credentials) → **HTTP 302**,
  `location: https://auth.loinc.org/?rd=https%3A%2F%2Ffhir.loinc.org%2FCodeSystem%2F%24lookup...&rm=GET`,
  and a `set-cookie: authelia_session=...; domain=loinc.org; HttpOnly; Secure;
  SameSite=Lax` — an [Authelia](https://www.authelia.com/) SSO session cookie is
  issued on the very first anonymous request.
- `GET https://fhir.loinc.org/metadata` (the FHIR capability-statement route, which
  on a normal public FHIR server is the one endpoint left open for discovery) → the
  **same** 302-to-`auth.loinc.org` pattern, same cookie issuance. No capability
  statement is reachable without completing the SSO flow.
- `GET https://loinc.org/fhir/` (the human-facing FHIR landing page) → **HTTP 403**,
  served by Cloudflare, `cf-mitigated: challenge`, a 5,330-byte interactive challenge
  page (not a static denial — a live bot-check).

## Confirmed shape

There is no anonymous-read tier and no standard `WWW-Authenticate` challenge on this
FHIR server; an unauthenticated client is redirected into a full session-based login
flow (not even `/metadata`, normally the one public discovery route on most FHIR
servers, is exempted), and the adjacent human landing page is separately behind a
live Cloudflare challenge. Neither route was pursued past the redirect/challenge —
this lane records the refusal shape only, per the hard rule against submitting any
login form or solving any challenge.

## How observed

2026-10-05T09:09:10Z-09:09:12Z, curl default UA, GET only, against
`fhir.loinc.org/CodeSystem/$lookup`, `fhir.loinc.org/metadata`, and `loinc.org/fhir/`.

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