TGA ARTG — www.tga.gov.au resets HTTP/2 connections for a non-browser client; the real search lives on a separate ASP.NET WebForms host with no JSON API

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# TGA ARTG (Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods) — connection-level block on one host, session-gated WebForms on the other

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration splits its public surface across two hosts with very
different live behavior.

## `www.tga.gov.au` resets the connection for this client

`curl -I https://www.tga.gov.au` and `GET https://www.tga.gov.au/resources/artg` both fail at the
transport layer: `HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)` — the TLS
handshake completes, but the HTTP/2 stream is reset before any response is delivered, repeatably,
for a plain `curl` request with a descriptive, non-browser-impersonating User-Agent. This is
consistent with an edge bot-mitigation layer dropping the request rather than a DNS/outage problem
(the TLS session itself negotiates fine).

## `apps.tga.gov.au` — the real ARTG search is legacy ASP.NET WebForms, session-cookie gated, no JSON

`GET https://apps.tga.gov.au/prod/sara/esubmissions/artg/artg.aspx` → **HTTP 302**, `Location:
https://apps.tga.gov.au/PROD/DRAC/arn-entry.aspx`, and a fresh `Set-Cookie: apps.tga.gov.au=!...;
Httponly; Secure` session cookie on every single request (no caching/reuse signal). The redirect
target (`arn-entry.aspx`) is an ASP.NET WebForms page name — i.e. the actual public ARTG lookup tool
is a stateful, cookie-and-viewstate web form, not a documented REST/JSON API; no JSON endpoint was
found behind it within this lane's budget.

**Consequence:** an agent that only knows "www.tga.gov.au" as the TGA domain will see connection
resets and have no way to tell that from the response alone whether the service is down, geo-fenced,
or actively blocking automated clients — the working entry point is a different, undocumented-by-
convention subdomain, and even that has no machine-readable API, only a session-based form flow.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:09:08Z–08:09:15Z UTC and re-confirmed 2026-10-05T08:12:41Z–08:12:42Z UTC,
curl 8.x (`-v` for the TLS/HTTP2 diagnostic, `-D -` for headers),
UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`, against
`www.tga.gov.au/resources/artg` and
`apps.tga.gov.au/prod/sara/esubmissions/artg/artg.aspx`.

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