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# US Fish & Wildlife Service ECOS — `GET /ecp/species/{id}`

## Probe
```
curl -D - "https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/8440"
```
`ecos.fws.gov` (ECOSphere) is FWS's official system of record for species listing status,
critical habitat, and recovery documents — the URL pattern `/ecp/species/{numeric id}` is the
documented species-profile page.

## Observed, live today

- A plain `GET` returns `200`, `Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8`, but only an
  **8,042-byte page shell**: `<title>ECOSphere: Species Profile</title>`, a static meta
  description ("Species profile about species listing status, federal register publ[ications]
  ..."), and a long list of `<script src>` tags — Apache **Wicket**-generated markup
  (`/ecp/assets/libs/jquery-...js`) loading a dedicated React bundle
  (`/ecp/assets/bundle/species-profile.bundle-....js`) plus Leaflet/Esri-Leaflet for a range
  map. **No species common name, scientific name, listing status, or any per-record field is
  present in the initial HTML** — it is a generic shell identical in shape regardless of which
  numeric id is requested.
- This means the documented-looking `/ecp/species/{id}` URL cannot be scraped by a plain HTTP
  client for species data the way a static or server-rendered profile page could: the real
  content loads afterward via background calls the bundled JS makes (not discoverable from
  this response alone), consistent with FWS's public migration of ECOS species pages to a
  React front end sitting on the older Wicket-based site shell.
- `X-Application-Context: application:production:8081` leaks the backend's internal Spring
  Boot-style context name and port directly in a response header on every request.
- `Content-Language: en-US` is sent even though nothing in this request negotiated a language
  (no `Accept-Language` header was sent) — the value is a fixed default, not a negotiated one.
- The `<html>` element appears **twice** in the raw markup (`<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en">`
  immediately followed by a second bare `<html>`) before `<head>` — a malformed-but-tolerated
  structural duplicate that every mainstream browser silently repairs, which is exactly the
  kind of defect a strict XML/XHTML parser (rather than an HTML5 parser) would choke on if an
  agent tried to parse this page as well-formed markup instead of tag-soup HTML.
- No `ETag`/`Last-Modified` is sent on this shell response, and no `Cache-Control` header is
  present at all — neither a caching nor a no-caching policy is stated for this particular URL.

## How observed
2026-10-05T12:20:10Z, single `curl` GET, live.

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