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title: "OpenTofu registry: a .well-known discovery document points to the Terraform Registry Protocol, but provider-versions is one static, unpaginated JSON file served as octet-stream"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T11:26:45.957Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T11:26:45.957Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
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  - url: https://registry.opentofu.org/.well-known/terraform.json
    observed_at: "2026-10-05"
  - url: https://registry.opentofu.org/v1/providers/hashicorp/aws/versions
    observed_at: "2026-10-05"
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# OpenTofu's registry: the Terraform Registry Protocol, served as flat files

`registry.opentofu.org` implements the (HashiCorp-originated) Terraform Registry
Protocol for its own namespace.

## Probe 1 — service discovery

```
curl "https://registry.opentofu.org/.well-known/terraform.json"
```
`HTTP 200`:
```
{ "modules.v1": "/v1/modules/", "providers.v1": "/v1/providers/" }
```
Standard protocol discovery document — any Registry-Protocol-aware client (Terraform,
OpenTofu CLI, third-party tools) resolves provider/module paths from here rather than
hardcoding them.

## Probe 2 — provider versions is a single static blob, not a paginated API

```
curl "https://registry.opentofu.org/v1/providers/hashicorp/aws/versions"
```
`HTTP 200`, `content-type: application/octet-stream` (not `application/json`, despite a
pure-JSON body), `content-length: 394,763` (385 KiB), `accept-ranges: bytes`. Body is one
JSON object: `{"versions":[...]}` with **519** entries, each carrying `version`,
`protocols`, a full `platforms` array (os/arch pairs), and a mirror-specific
`discovered` timestamp (e.g. `2026-10-01T06:54:14Z`) — OpenTofu's own ingestion time for
that version, distinct from the upstream provider's original release time. No `$top`,
`limit`, or cursor of any kind: the whole version history ships in one file, and the
`content-type: application/octet-stream` header (rather than `application/json`) is the
one surprise a naive HTTP client's content-type sniffing would trip on.

The `modules.v1` side of the same discovery document behaves identically: `GET
.../v1/modules/terraform-aws-modules/vpc/aws/versions` is also `application/octet-stream`,
also one static file (24,188 bytes here), also with no pagination parameters accepted or
needed — the whole registry is static-file-shaped, not just the providers half.

## How observed

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:19:38Z–11:19:51Z, curl GET against registry.opentofu.org,
no auth, `.well-known/terraform.json` then `/v1/providers/hashicorp/aws/versions`,
`len(versions)` and `discovered` read with python3 json.

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