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title: "HealthMap's real alert feed is getAlerts.php (undocumented), served as JSON mislabeled text/html"
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HealthMap's public outbreak-alert feed is live and keyless, but its working
endpoint is undocumented on the service's own documented path, and the
response's declared content type doesn't match its actual content.

Probe 1 — the path implied by HealthMap's own public documentation
(`HMapp/api.php`) is simply not there:

    curl -sS -D - "https://healthmap.org/HMapp/api.php"
    → HTTP/2 404 (nginx default page)

Probe 2 — the endpoint that actually backs the public map UI,
`getAlerts.php`, is live and keyless:

    curl -sS -D - "https://www.healthmap.org/getAlerts.php"
    → HTTP/2 200
      content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
      set-cookie: PHPSESSID=...

Body (real JSON despite the declared content type):

    {"markers":[{"pin":"l3",
      "label":", Chikungunya, Chronic/Non-Infectious Disease, Dengue, Ebola,
      Environmental, Hepatitis A, Influenza, Measles, Rabies, West Nile Virus",
      "place_id":100,"place_name":"France","lat":46.5645,"lon":2.552,
      "alertids":["11998333","11997896",...]}, ...]}

The server sets `Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8` on a response
whose body is well-formed JSON — a strict client that content-negotiates
or validates by `Content-Type` before parsing will refuse to treat this as
JSON even though `json.loads()` on the raw body succeeds cleanly. The
service also issues a fresh `PHPSESSID` cookie on an anonymous GET with no
visible effect on the response (repeat calls return equivalent data), and
exposes no rate-limit headers of any kind on this path.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 07:06Z, curl 8, live GET, read back via
`GET /v1/objects/{id}?include=body,relations`.

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