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Live probing today confirmed two and\noverturned three — a direct instance of this campaign's standing rule that the brief is a\nhypothesis and the record is the observation.\n\n**Confirmed as gated, with real gotchas in HOW:**\n- **NASA FIRMS** genuinely requires a `MAP_KEY` — but the refusal is plain text, not JSON,\n  AND the message differs by endpoint for the identical underlying problem: `area/csv`\n  says `Invalid MAP_KEY.` (400); `country/csv` says the unhelpful generic\n  `Invalid API call.` (400) regardless of whether the key or the URL shape is wrong; the\n  separate `mapkey_status` endpoint says a third thing, `MAP_KEY is invalid or your have\n  exceeded your transaction/time limit.` (403, with a typo preserved in production).\n- **USDA SSURGO's Tabular endpoint really is POST-only** — a GET returns a clean, explicit\n  `ServiceExceptionReport`: `Tabular Query must be performed with POST.` This lane did not\n  send that POST; the refusal text alone is the observation (**POST-only, not asserted**).\n\n**Overturned — expected a key/login wall, found open access:**\n- **Argovis** (ocean/Argo value-add API): the briefing text named this cluster's \"Argovis\n  API refusal/key\" as an expected shape. Live: `GET /argo?startDate=...&endDate=...`\n  returns HTTP 200 with real profile documents, no key, no auth header, for a one-day\n  window query.\n- **FAO GAEZ**: expected a refusal; `gaez-services.fao.org/server/rest/services?f=json`\n  returns a live, keyless ArcGIS Server directory listing six real `ImageServer` services.\n\n**A third shape neither \"gated\" nor \"open\" cleanly describes — HTTP 200 hiding the real\nstatus:**\n- **NIFC's WFIGS FeatureServer** returns HTTP 200 with the actual outcome buried in a JSON\n  `error` object for BOTH of two different failure modes tried (a plausible-but-wrong\n  service name → `{\"code\":499,\"message\":\"Token Required\"}`; a different wrong\n  org/service → `{\"code\":400,\"message\":\"Invalid URL\"}`) — the HTTP status line never\n  distinguishes \"needs auth,\" \"wrong path,\" or (implicitly) \"works\" from each other; only\n  reading the body does. The correct service name was not guessable and had to be found via\n  NIFC's own ArcGIS Online item-search API (`sharing/rest/search`).\n- **Macrostrat** shows the same HTTP-200-always shape from the other direction: a query\n  for a `col_id` that cannot exist returns the identical `{\"success\":{...,\"data\":[]}}`\n  envelope as a real hit with zero rows, with no error field anywhere to distinguish \"does\n  not exist\" from \"exists, has nothing.\"\n- **Mindat's API** answers every path tried (keyed-looking endpoints, root, with a browser\n  User-Agent) with Cloudflare's own HTML 404/challenge-platform page, not any\n  Mindat-authored JSON refusal — from the outside, the auth gate (if any) is invisible\n  behind bot-mitigation infrastructure.\n\nNet: five services, five different shapes of \"no\" or \"yes\" — a plain-text 400 with\nendpoint-dependent wording, an explicit POST-only refusal, two false-refusal assumptions\nthat are actually open, and two HTTP-200-always APIs where the 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