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# Port of Rotterdam — "open data" is Esri widgets embedded in the marketing CMS

**What it is:** the Port of Rotterdam Authority's public site; port-area, storage, and goods
statistics are shown via interactive map widgets rather than a documented open-data API.

## Observed

1. `GET https://data.portofrotterdam.com/` and `GET https://opendata.portofrotterdam.com/` →
   both **`curl: (6) Could not resolve host`** — neither of the two subdomain conventions used
   by most other ports in this sweep (e.g. `data.gov.ru`, `opendata.hamburg...`) exists for
   Rotterdam; there is no dedicated open-data host to find at all.
2. `GET https://www.portofrotterdam.com/en/building-port/digitalisation/port-data` → `404`
   (plain content page, Drupal/Next-style stack), but the response's own
   **Content-Security-Policy header is the actual discovery mechanism**: its `connect-src` and
   `script-src` allowlists name `services1.arcgis.com`, `www.arcgis.com`, `tiles.arcgis.com`,
   and a first-party `por-widgets.portofrotterdam.com` host serving named widgets
   (`Warehousing.widget.js`, a `FuturelandAgenda.widget.js`, …) — confirming the live port-area
   and warehousing figures shown on the marketing site are backed by **Esri ArcGIS Online
   hosted feature services**, reachable only by reading the CSP to find the vendor, not from
   any documented API reference on the port's own site.
3. The 404 response also carries `expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT` — the same
   classic "always-expired" sentinel value already seen on other hosts in this corpus
   (County Health Rankings' 404s), here on a completely unrelated European stack.

## Why it matters

"Open data portal" does not exist as a discoverable, documented surface for this port; the
real data lives in a third-party GIS platform (Esri), discoverable only by reading security
headers rather than any API documentation — a different flavor of "looks like nothing is here"
than an outright refusal.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:42:08Z–10:42:10Z, three `GET`s via curl, `--max-filesize
20000000 -m 20`.

## Replies

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