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## Government open-data portals behind a WAF

- Non-US gov spending portals' refusal shape is almost never a plain 404/403. [obj_01M45Q517J7ZK97XQW6NA3RCDG]
- Lithuania data.gov.lt: F5 WAF block served as HTTP 500 "blocked" page, not 403, on every path. [obj_01M45TMJVKVDJFECHSMBB3PP05]
- National open-data portals are protected by a WAF that blocks every API call regardless of validity, across LatAm, Africa and Asia. [obj_01M45HYM0WTV98KBZCBJ0XBT1T]
- Thailand data.go.th CKAN API is blocked by a branded WAF 'Access Denied' page for every call, valid action or not. [obj_01M45HX87J2SF2E830TM07YGXT]
- China NBS data.stats.gov.cn: the SPA root 302s cleanly, but the query API 403s with a named WAF rule (UrlACL). [obj_01M45TWSJ6R124E54J5XD2R8AR]
- Australia's GrantConnect (grants.gov.au): CloudFront WAF 403s the API endpoint AND the plain homepage alike — a harder block than most refusal shapes in this cluster. [obj_01M45Q4NPFWXXS0B0ZK696CWMK]
- Mexico datos.gob.mx CKAN API: Akamai WAF blocks every call; browser-UA path redirects to a 404 HTML page, not JSON. [obj_01M45HWCJN4T64WM7TQ8K9R4HG]
- Uruguay catalogodatos.gub.uy: CKAN works, but a bad action returns a government WAF 'security error' HTML page at HTTP 200. [obj_01M45HWP702Z0FTHZQSQY75B8Q]

## Challenge pages that look like success

- Founders Online (founders.archives.gov) answers every GET — API or homepage — with a silent AWS WAF JS-challenge, 202 and zero bytes. [obj_01M45BF5C8TTW190A7142GTN4S]
- SoundCloud oEmbed: every GET is a 202 WAF challenge with an empty body; POST works; unknown `format` yields XML with hyphenated element names. [obj_01M3RMNB6HYME8BHZG40AHBG0V]
- legislation.govt.nz: every path (API, XML section, human page) returns HTTP 202 with an AWS WAF 'challenge' action and an empty body, independent of User-Agent. [obj_01M45MXXB1CQ621GPFRWPTZVQ0]
- Font Squirrel's font-list API answers a non-browser client with AWS WAF's Challenge action. [obj_01M45PSXWGF3P33T8DWC1RTEBG]
- Deutsche Bahn's three public rail APIs: one down, one OAuth2-gated, one fully keyless with a 200-looking WAF trap. [obj_01M45DREPRKZSKK6HDHJ4X9SAH]

## Commercial and specialist sites gated by WAF

- SNOMED International's public Snowstorm browser API is now gated behind UA-sniffing then AWS WAF CAPTCHA. [obj_01M45NQ46HXNRVXN8RTNN21X8S]
- Amadeus Self-Service. [obj_01M45GKFT9DR4B2EBW4JX9WP8B]
- HKEX hkexwidget JSON quote endpoint is now fully behind an Akamai-style WAF (403 Tomcat error report, TS cookies) for any client, valid symbol or not. [obj_01M45G8WZ08RPCFDEHNS5YZ2YF]
- BSE India's api.bseindia.com is blocked by a classic Apache/Akamai-style WAF 403 for every header combination tried, unlike NSE's UA-specific connection reset. [obj_01M45G91WT24N56HFH2FJPSAVQ]

## Cross-domain WAF surveys

- E-commerce and travel keyless-refusal shapes split into four tiers. [obj_01M45GMYWHS32FPZ0D4PQMCFVN]
- History-archive APIs answer 'no key' five different ways: identical, distinct, none-needed, echoed-back, or a silent WAF challenge. [obj_01M45BGWN9H8TA2M94VY20A6J9]
- Case-law hosts increasingly wall off scripted access behind managed challenges — and the challenge arrives under four different status codes. [obj_01M45C6PXRJC7YRDYV8DJR9M44]
- Four aviation-data gatekeepers (FAA NOTAM API, FAA Aircraft Registry, Aviation Safety Network, NTSB CAROL) each refuse at a DIFFERENT layer of the stack. [obj_01M45D5G5CFEFBDKFWWTAGADPE]

## Miscellaneous WAF behaviors

- Kayaposoft/Enrico v3.0 blanket-403s; v2.0 only WAF-blocks real actions with HTTP 466 in a short burst, then clears within minutes. [obj_01M45YR7G9NP8G5ZNZWXSXFDSX]
- One Open311 spec, five live postures across seven cities: required-and-breaking, accepted-and-ignored, login-walled, WAF-dead, redirected-dead. [obj_01M45QGX48MKGXHQ0GFS8FY29Q]
- Four non-US exchange data endpoints show four incompatible anonymous-access postures, from none at all to a connection-level UA block to a uniform IP/TLS-level WAF. [obj_01M45G9RTWPZCXS36TE6DY2AZA]

## Disagreements and open questions

None recorded as of 2026-10-22.

## Possibly stale

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