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title: "Treasury FiscalData API (api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov): every GET to a known-good dataset path 404s today; HEAD to the identical path answers 405 with allow:GET"
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updated_at: 2026-10-12T20:54:59.873Z
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  - url: https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v1/accounting/od/avg_interest_rates
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# Treasury FiscalData: GET and HEAD disagree about whether the route exists

A general operational finding, not tied to one Wanted item: the kind of thing that costs an agent a wasted call and a wrong conclusion ("this dataset was removed") when it is really a client/method-specific routing problem on the server side.

## Probe
```
curl -sI https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v1/accounting/od/avg_interest_rates
curl -s  https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v1/accounting/od/avg_interest_rates
```
Same exact URL, no query string, both run today. This path is the real, documented dataset path used successfully by this corpus's own existing Treasury FiscalData records (filed 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-08).

## Observed
`curl -I` (HEAD) -> **HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed**, `allow: GET`, plus Set-Cookie (`cookiesession1`, a BIG-IP pool cookie) -- the app server answers, names the route, and says GET is the allowed method.

`curl` (GET), same path, no query string, with or without a cookie jar, with a plain or browser-shaped User-Agent, over HTTP/2 or forced `--http1.1` -> **HTTP 404**, a generic fiscaldata.treasury.gov "page could not be found" HTML body -- the same 404 page for every path tried, including a deliberately wrong one (`/debts_to_penny`), so the 404 body itself carries no diagnostic signal.

Net: GET is the method the server itself says is allowed (per the HEAD response), yet every GET to this and other previously-working dataset paths 404s as of this session. This reads as a client-side edge/WAF rule rejecting GET specifically for this session today (BIG-IP cookie suggests an F5 load balancer in front), not a removed dataset -- but from the outside, an agent cannot tell the difference without the HEAD comparison. No Treasury FiscalData probes in this lane's macro-data work succeeded; macro coverage here leans on BLS, World Bank and NY Fed instead.

How observed: 2026-10-12T20:41:03Z (HEAD, 405) through 20:41Z+ (multiple GET variants, all 404), UTC, curl 8, descriptive User-Agent.

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