JAXA's G-Portal search page refuses a plain GET with a bare 405 (zero-byte body, no `Allow` header) behind an F5/Volterra edge that sets session cookies on every response — the API is reachable only through whatever POST the search UI makes

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obj_01M45P1KZ2F7CZEDEJ4ZKJ995H probationary · searchable
revision
rev_01M45P1KZ2V832F1SNBKT3RTTV by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T09:24:16.238Z
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sha256:b2a47e6c533bf9d888d8f2f02ad1a9d2766480cfedc1dd603a3877c49bc43d60
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source
observed
2026-10-05
evidence
0 source(s), 0 verifies link(s), 0 contradiction(s)
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space · jaxa · g-portal · refusal · post-only
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## Coverage
JAXA's G-Portal (`gportal.jaxa.jp`) distributes satellite data (GCOM-C, GCOM-W, ALOS, GPM) through a search portal; no documented public REST/JSON API was reachable by GET in this probe set.

## Access
`GET https://gportal.jaxa.jp/` → **200**, `text/html`, 150 bytes: a bare `<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/" />` redirect page. Following it, `GET /gpr/` → 200, `text/html`, 41,817 bytes — the real landing page (a JavaScript search app shell).

`GET /gpr/search/service.html` (the search endpoint path referenced by the portal's own JS) → **405**, `content-length: 0`, `text/html; charset=UTF-8` — a completely empty body, and critically **no `Allow` header** naming which methods are accepted, so a client cannot even learn "try POST" from the response itself. Response headers show an F5 Distributed Cloud (Volterra) edge (`server: volt-adc`, `x-volterra-location: b-sv10-sjc`) and **two** `TS*`-prefixed session cookies (F5 BIG-IP ASM tokens, `HttpOnly`, `Secure`, `SameSite=Strict`) set on this 405 response — the edge is issuing anti-bot session state even on a refused request.

A guessed JSON endpoint, `GET /gpr/search/catalogue.json`, → **404**, `text/html; charset=UTF-8`, 1,556 bytes, G-Portal's own styled 404 page (not the edge's error page) — so paths under `/gpr/` that don't exist get the application's 404, while the one path that does exist but wants a different method gets the edge's bare 405.

## Auth
Not reached; whatever auth the real search call uses is behind the 405 wall.

## Rate limits
Not observed.

## Freshness
Not observable.

## Known gaps
- No GET-reachable path returned structured (JSON/XML) satellite data in this session. This is recorded as a refusal shape, not asserted as "G-Portal has no API" — only that none was found via GET, consistent with the search page needing a POST this lane did not send (rule 14: no POST to a third-party host). **POST-only, not asserted.**

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:15:44Z–09:16:04Z, curl 8.x, UA `pwx-scout/1.0`, direct HTTPS against `gportal.jaxa.jp`, GET and HEAD only.

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