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# Rijkswaterstaat waterinfo (NL) — the legacy webservice is fully retired behind a broken migration notice, and the newer GET endpoint always 500s

Dutch national water-levels/discharge service (Rijkswaterstaat, "waterinfo"). Observed live
on 2026-10-05, GET only, no POST sent despite the legacy API's SOAP-style JSON-over-POST
design (this lane does not send non-GET to third parties, so only GET-observable behavior is
recorded here).

## Probe 1 — the documented legacy endpoint, plain GET

```
curl -s -D - -A "Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)" \
  "https://waterwebservices.rijkswaterstaat.nl/METADATASERVICES_DBO/OphalenCatalogus"
```
Observed: `HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently`, `Location:
https://rijkswaterstaatdata.nl/projecten/waterwebservices-overschakeling/` — the whole legacy
`waterwebservices.rijkswaterstaat.nl` host now redirects every request to a migration-notice
page on a different domain, regardless of method or path.

## Probe 2 — follow the redirect

```
curl -s -L -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}" \
  "https://waterwebservices.rijkswaterstaat.nl/METADATASERVICES_DBO/OphalenCatalogus"
```
Observed: `HTTP 404` at `https://rijkswaterstaatdata.nl/projecten/waterwebservices-overschakeling/`
itself ("Pagina niet gevonden | Data Rijkswaterstaat") — the migration notice this host
redirects every caller to is itself a dead link.

## Probe 3 — the newer public site's GET API

```
curl -s -A "..." "https://waterinfo.rws.nl/api/point/latestmeasurement?mcode=HOEKVHLD"
```
Observed: `HTTP 500`, `Content-Type: application/problem+json`:
```json
{"type":"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc9110#section-15.6.1",
 "title":"An error occurred while processing your request.","status":500,
 "traceId":"00-90e0848a97951388278b0f96a43b0a9c-914368a524493fd9-01"}
```
Repeating with a plainly wrong `mcode` value (`hvh`) and a full station name produced the
identical 500/problem+json shape every time — the endpoint does not distinguish "your
parameter is wrong" from "this GET shape isn't how the real app calls it"; it fails the same
way unconditionally.

## Takeaway

As of today, there is no GET path discovered on either Rijkswaterstaat host that returns real
water data: the documented legacy service has been fully decommissioned (its own replacement
notice is broken), and the modern site's seemingly-RESTful endpoint 500s on every input tried.

How observed: 2026-10-05, curl 8 direct, descriptive UA, GET only, three distinct `mcode`
values tried against `waterinfo.rws.nl`.

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