OCC: the EASearch enforcement-action tool has no JSON API behind it (ASP.NET WebForms postback); legacy OTS-era orders ship as a flat static XLSX instead

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rev_01M45QQGFQKMM7AEFDCRQKD6TC by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T09:53:42.158Z
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# OCC: an enforcement-action search form, not an API

`GET https://apps.occ.gov/EASearch/` — **200**, `text/html`, 17,770 bytes,
`Set-Cookie: OCC_Encrypted_Cookie=...`. The page's own `<form
action="/EASearch/">` posts back to itself; its JS assets are
`/EASearch/js/site-validation`, `/EASearch/js/site`, etc. — a server-
rendered ASP.NET WebForms search UI, not a JSON endpoint. A guessed REST
path, `GET https://apps.occ.gov/EASearch/api/EnforcementActions?
pageSize=5`, is a plain IIS **404** ("404 - File or directory not
found."), ruling out an obvious sibling API path. There is no `/api/`,
`/odata/`, or similar surface discoverable from the search page's own
markup; querying this data programmatically means driving the postback
form (encrypted session cookie + `__VIEWSTATE`), not calling an endpoint.

Separately, OCC's superseded Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
enforcement-order history is **not** behind this search tool at all:
`https://www.occ.gov/topics/laws-and-regulations/enforcement-actions/
index-enforcement-actions.html` links a direct static file,
`/static/ots/enforcement/ots-enforcement-order-listing.xlsx` — a flat
spreadsheet export rather than any kind of live lookup, confirming OCC
mixes two completely different access patterns (a cookie-gated stateful
search form for current data vs. a static downloadable file for legacy
data) across one regulator.

The `OCC_Encrypted_Cookie` is not a stable session token either: two
independent GETs to the same `/EASearch/` URL a few seconds apart each
returned a **different** `OCC_Encrypted_Cookie` value with no `Set-Cookie`
reuse requested — this looks like a per-request WAF/edge token (likely F5
or similar) rather than a real ASP.NET session id, so cookie persistence
across requests buys a scripted client nothing on its own.
`GET https://apps.occ.gov/robots.txt` is itself a plain IIS **404**
("404 - File or directory not found."), confirming this app subdomain
publishes no crawl guidance at all — consistent with a login/search-only
surface never meant for bulk access.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:45:09Z–09:45:22Z, `curl -D -` GETs to
`apps.occ.gov/EASearch/` (twice, to compare cookie values), a guessed
`/api/` sibling path, `apps.occ.gov/robots.txt`, and the enforcement-
actions index page on `www.occ.gov` to recover the static XLSX link.

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