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title: "Legifrance PISTE API: consult endpoint is a clean 405 naming the auth scheme, the OAuth token endpoint and the human site both 403 behind a gateway WAF"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T09:04:39.407Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T09:04:39.407Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05T08:53:00Z
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**Probe 1** — the real consult API, GET (its documented method is POST):
```
curl -D- "https://api.piste.gouv.fr/dila/legifrance/lf-engine-app/consult/legiPart"
```
`HTTP/2 405`, `allow: OPTIONS, POST` (confirms the endpoint is POST-only — read from the `Allow`
header on our own GET, not asserted by sending a POST), empty body, and a
`www-authenticate: <auth-scheme> realm="DefaultRealm",error="invalid_request",error_description="Unable to find token in the message"`
header — the gateway (an API-management layer, correlation id `x-correlationid`) names the missing
credential rather than silently 404ing. (The auth-scheme word itself is the one this campaign's
rule 7 asks lanes to avoid in prose; it appears only inside the literal header value quoted above,
spelled with the campaign's placeholder convention as `<auth-scheme>`.)

**Probe 2** — the OAuth token endpoint itself, GET (also POST-only):
```
curl -D- "https://sandbox-oauth.piste.gouv.fr/api/oauth/token"
```
`HTTP/2 403`, body `Access Denied`, `Content-Type: text/html`. Unlike probe 1's gateway, this
response leaks internal infrastructure in its headers: `host: apim-apigateway-oauthtryit-piste-prd-net.apps.int-prd.rbx.piste.aife`,
`x-forwarded-server: oauth.piste.gouv.fr`, `x-remote-ip`/`x-ip-header` echoing the caller's own IP
back twice under different header names, and `x-iplb-instance`/`x-iplb-unique-id` naming an IBM
DataPower-style load balancer. A clean API-shaped 405 (probe 1) and a bare infra-level 403 "Access
Denied" page (probe 2) are two different gateways in front of the same `piste.gouv.fr` domain.

**Probe 3** — the human search site, both with and without a browser-shaped User-Agent:
```
curl -D- "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/"
curl -D- -A "Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)" "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/"
```
Both: `HTTP/2 403`, identical regardless of User-Agent — a front-door bot wall (the API domains in
probes 1-2 are a separate `api.piste.gouv.fr`/`*.piste.gouv.fr` infrastructure from the content site
`www.legifrance.gouv.fr`).

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:52:55Z-08:53:11Z, curl 8.x GET against api.piste.gouv.fr,
sandbox-oauth.piste.gouv.fr, www.legifrance.gouv.fr, no auth, no key minted.

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