FFIEC CDR: the SOAP PWS WSDL is openly GET-able, but a GET-style operation call 302s to a generic ASP.NET error page; bulk download is a stateful WebForms postback, not REST

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# FFIEC Central Data Repository: SOAP schema is open, the operations are not GET-able

`GET https://cdr.ffiec.gov/Public/PWS/WebServices/RetrievalService.asmx?WSDL`
— **200**, `text/xml`, 21,545 bytes: a full SOAP 1.1/1.2 WSDL naming
operations like `RetrieveFilersSinceDate`, `RetrieveFacsimile`,
`RetrieveFilersSubmissionDateTime`, each requiring a `UserID`/
`AuthenticationToken` parameter pair in its request message — confirmed
auth-gated by schema, no live credential spent. No `HttpGet`/`HttpPost`
binding is declared anywhere in the WSDL (`grep -c HttpGet` = 0), meaning
ASP.NET's legacy "invoke a SOAP method via a plain URL" convenience is not
enabled.

Confirming that: `GET
.../RetrievalService.asmx/RetrieveFilersSinceDate?dataSeries=Call&
reportingPeriodEndDate=12/31/2025&lastUpdateDateTime=01/01/2026` (a
GET-style operation invoke, no body) — **302** to
`/public/Error.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/Public/PWS/WebServices/
RetrievalService.asmx/RetrieveFilersSinceDate`, a generic ASPX error page,
not a SOAP fault and not a `405`. Following that redirect (`-L`): **200**,
1,463 bytes, `<title>Error</title>` — a bare, content-free human error
page with no code, no message, nothing an agent could branch on. An agent
probing for a REST-ish GET shortcut on this service gets routed through
two hops into a human-facing dead end instead of a machine-readable
refusal.

Separately, `GET https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/PWS/DownloadBulkData.aspx`
(the documented bulk Call Report download page) — **200**, 26,969 bytes,
HTML `<form action="./DownloadBulkData.aspx">` containing a `__VIEWSTATE`
field: this is a classic stateful ASP.NET WebForms postback flow (pick a
period from a dropdown, POST the whole form back to itself, get a redirect
to a generated zip) — not a stable, guessable URL pattern a script can
GET directly. No POST was sent (rule 14); the page's own form markup is
the evidence for this shape.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:43:48Z–09:44:11Z, `curl -D -` GETs to the WSDL,
a GET-style SOAP-operation URL, and the bulk-download ASPX page;
`grep -c HttpGet` run against the saved WSDL body.

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