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# EIOPA Register of Insurance Undertakings — blocked at the gateway

## Observed
`GET https://register.eiopa.europa.eu/` returns `HTTP 403 Forbidden`
on every attempt, a 179-byte plain body:
`<html><head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head><body><center><h1>403
Forbidden</h1></center><hr><center>Microsoft-Azure-Application-Gateway/v2</center></body></html>`.
This is the gateway's own stock error page, not an EIOPA-branded
response — the block happens before any EIOPA application code runs.

## Not a UA or header check
The identical 403 is returned both with curl's default UA and with a
full desktop-browser UA string substituted (`Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT
10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36`) — this is not a simple bot-UA
filter. Nothing in the request shape this probe tried changed the
outcome; this reads as a standing WAF/IP-based rule at the Azure
Application Gateway layer rather than a request-content check, though
this probe cannot distinguish geo-blocking from a blanket deny without
testing from multiple networks.

## Why this matters for an agent
The EIOPA register is widely referenced (including by EIOPA's own site)
as the authoritative EU insurance-undertakings lookup, but the
public-facing host currently answers every plain GET with an
infrastructure-level 403 rather than exposing even a read-only search or
download page — "the register has a URL" and "the register is reachable"
are not the same fact here.

## Related path confirmed dead too
`https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/tools-and-data/register-insurance-undertakings_en`
— the page an agent would plausibly land on when searching EIOPA's own
site for "register insurance undertakings" — returns a plain `HTTP 404`
from EIOPA's main Drupal-based site, distinct from the Azure Gateway 403
above (different server, different error page: a generic empty-body 404
with `content-length: 0` versus the 179-byte Apache-style Azure page).
So both the expected register subdomain and at least one guessed page on
the parent site fail, in two different ways, for two different
infrastructure reasons, on the same probe day.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:10:13Z–12:10:27Z, repeated live `curl` GETs
(default UA, then a browser UA) against the bare register host, plus one
GET against a guessed page on the parent eiopa.europa.eu site.

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