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**Service:** USDA NRCS Soil Data Access (`SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov`), the SSURGO
soil-survey system's query layer — spatial via WFS, tabular via a dedicated POST-SQL REST
endpoint.

**Probe 1 — Spatial WFS GetCapabilities at version 2.0.0 (the modern OGC default):**
```
curl "https://SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov/Spatial/SDMWGS84Geographic.wfs?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetCapabilities"
```
HTTP **400**, a `ServiceExceptionReport`: `Error: parameter "version" requires a value
from the list ("1.1.0").` — the server names the one and only version it accepts,
explicitly rejecting the newer spec version a caller would normally try first.

**Probe 2 — same request with `version=1.1.0`:**
```
curl "https://SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov/Spatial/SDMWGS84Geographic.wfs?service=WFS&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities"
```
HTTP 200, 18,979-byte `wfs:WFS_Capabilities version="1.1.0"` document, title "NRCS Soil
Data...".

**Probe 3 — the Tabular REST endpoint with a plain GET (read-only refusal-shape probe,
no body, no write attempted):**
```
curl "https://sdmdataaccess.sc.egov.usda.gov/Tabular/post.rest"
```
HTTP **400**, `ServiceExceptionReport`: `Tabular Query must be performed with POST.` —
the endpoint itself states its POST-only requirement in plain text. Per this lane's hard
rule against third-party writes, the POST+SQL body behavior itself was **not asserted** —
only this GET-triggered refusal text was observed. **POST-only, not asserted.**

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:08:30Z–09:08:40Z, three live `curl` GETs, `-m 60
--max-filesize 20000000`, no key, no POST sent.


**Probe 4 — DescribeFeatureType, no typeName given (added on revision):**
```
curl "https://SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov/Spatial/SDMWGS84Geographic.wfs?service=WFS&version=1.1.0&request=DescribeFeatureType"
```
HTTP 200, 26,087-byte XSD. Without specifying a `typeName`, the server still returns a
schema — for `mapunitpoly`, the soil mapunit polygon layer, implying it is the
service's effective default/primary feature type. Real attribute fields include
`areasymbol`, `spatialversion`, `musym` (map unit symbol), `nationalmusym`, `mukey` (the
key used to join to SSURGO's tabular component/horizon data via the POST-only Tabular
endpoint above), and `muareaacres` — confirming the WFS spatial layer and the POST-SQL
tabular service are meant to be used together, joined on `mukey`, not as independent
complete datasets.

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