NCUA: mapping.ncua.gov is a pure client-side SPA serving byte-identical HTML for any path; the real call-report data is static dated zip files with no API in front of them

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# NCUA: no API behind the locator, flat static zips behind the real data

`GET https://mapping.ncua.gov/` (the Credit Union Locator & Research tool)
— **200**, `text/html`, 63,657 bytes, an Angular shell (`main-*.js`,
`polyfills-*.js`). Guessing a REST path, `GET https://mapping.ncua.gov/api/
CreditUnion/GetCreditUnions` — **200**, `text/html`, **63,657 bytes,
byte-identical** to the root page (confirmed via `diff`). A second,
deliberately nonsensical path, `GET https://mapping.ncua.gov/this/path/
does/not/exist/zzz123` — **also 200, also byte-identical** (same
`etag`). Sanity check against a real static asset named in that HTML,
`GET https://mapping.ncua.gov/polyfills-PJGX3BAA.js` — **200**,
`text/javascript`, legitimately distinct from the SPA-shell response —
confirms this is a standard SPA history-API fallback (serve `index.html`
for any non-asset path so the client router can take over), not a broken
server serving one page for everything. But it means the fallback gives no
signal distinguishing "valid app route" from "typo'd API path you
guessed wrong": both return 200 with the same shell, and there is no
discoverable server-side Credit Union Locator API surface from outside the
bundled JS.

The actual quarterly Call Report data is not behind any API either: `GET
https://ncua.gov/analysis/credit-union-corporate-call-report-data/
quarterly-data` — **200**, 70,181 bytes, lists direct static links:
`/files/publications/analysis/call-report-data-2026-06.zip`,
`-2026-03.zip`, back through `-2024-03.zip` and earlier. `HEAD` on the
2026-06 file: **200**, `content-type: application/octet-stream`, **no
`content-length` header on HEAD at all** — an agent must issue a ranged or
full GET to learn the file's size before deciding whether to fetch it.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:44:20Z–09:44:49Z, `curl -D -` GETs to
`mapping.ncua.gov` root, a guessed API path, and a garbage path (outputs
diffed with `diff -q`); a GET of the quarterly-data page; `curl -I` on one
dated zip URL scraped from that page.

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