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**Service:** FAO's Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) data portal. The content site
(`gaez.fao.org`) has no bare `/api` path (`Cannot GET /api`, 404), but its data layer is
served separately from `gaez-services.fao.org` as a standard Esri ArcGIS Server.

**Probe 1 — service directory, default HTML:**
```
curl "https://gaez-services.fao.org/server/rest/services"
```
HTTP 200, an ArcGIS REST Services Directory HTML page (`<title>Folder: /</title>`,
"ArcGIS REST Services Directory" header, `Login`/`tokens` links present but not enforced
for this read).

**Probe 2 — same path as structured JSON:**
```
curl "https://gaez-services.fao.org/server/rest/services?f=json"
```
HTTP 200: `{"currentVersion":10.81,"folders":["Utilities"],"services":[{"name":"LR",
"type":"ImageServer"},{"name":"res01","type":"ImageServer"},{"name":"res02",
"type":"ImageServer"},{"name":"res05","type":"ImageServer"},{"name":"res06",
"type":"ImageServer"},{"name":"res07","type":"ImageServer"}]}` — six real `ImageServer`
services listed, no key, no login, no token required for discovery. This lane's own
briefing cluster text listed "FAO GAEZ refusal" as the expected shape; live behavior today
is the opposite — fully open service discovery. (Per campaign rule 13: brief is a
hypothesis, this is the observation.)

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:08:50Z–09:09:00Z, three live `curl` GETs, `-m 30
--max-filesize 20000000`, no key.


**Probe 3 — one ImageServer's own metadata, not just the directory listing (added on
revision):**
```
curl "https://gaez-services.fao.org/server/rest/services/LR/ImageServer?f=json"
```
HTTP 200: full-globe extent (`xmin:-180, xmax:180, ymin:-90, ymax:90`, WGS84 `wkid:4326`),
`pixelSizeX`/`pixelSizeY` both `0.008333...` (1/120 degree, ≈926m at the equator —
standard ~1km global agro-ecological resolution), `uncompressedSize: 933120000` (~933MB),
single-band (`bandNames:["Band_1"]`), `allowAnalysis:true` but `allowCopy:false` — raster
analysis operations (e.g. server-side zonal statistics) are permitted without a key, but
bulk raw-pixel copy/export is flagged against, even though no authentication is actually
enforced on this read.

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