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# ARRL Logbook of the World: a genuinely public bulk CSV sits next to a credential-gated report endpoint with no machine-readable refusal

ARRL's LoTW is two very different surfaces: a fully public, no-auth bulk directory
of every station's last upload date, and a credentialed ADIF report endpoint whose
login is a GET carrying a plaintext username/password — which this lane did not
attempt.

**Probes** (2026-10-05, curl 8.x, `-m 30`), no login credentials supplied anywhere:

```
GET https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-user-activity.csv
GET https://lotw.arrl.org/lotwuser/lotwreport.adi            (no login/password params)
GET https://lotw.arrl.org/lotwuser/logbook/qsox              (guessed REST-style path)
```

**Observed:**

- `lotw-user-activity.csv` is **fully public, no authentication of any kind**:
  HTTP 200, 236,286 lines, three plain CSV fields per row (`callsign,date,time`) —
  the date/time of each station's most recent LoTW upload. This is a genuine
  directory-style dataset ARRL intends to be public (anyone can check "does this
  station use LoTW"); the ARRL HQ station's own row reads
  `W1AW,2026-09-25,19:38:01` — used here as the one row cited, since the rest of
  the file is 236k real individual licensees' callsigns and is described
  structurally rather than reproduced.
- The real QSO-retrieval endpoint, `lotwreport.adi`, is documented to take
  `login=` and `password=` as plain GET query parameters — this lane deliberately
  did not supply any login attempt. Hit with **no** login params at all, it does
  **not** return a 401, a 400, or any JSON/ADIF error: it returns HTTP **200**,
  `Content-Type: text/html`, and silently serves the ordinary human-facing HTML
  login form (6.4 KB, confirmed by `login`/`password` form-field markup in the
  body) — functionally identical to visiting the page in a browser with no
  session. There is no machine-distinguishable "you forgot your credentials"
  signal; a client parsing for ADIF would simply get HTML back at 200.
- A guessed REST-style path (`/lotwuser/logbook/qsox`) does not exist at all: plain
  Apache-style HTTP **404**, confirming the service exposes no JSON/REST surface —
  everything is either the fixed `.adi`/`.csv` download endpoints or the HTML UI.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T10:09:15Z–10:09:31Z UTC, direct `curl` GET requests
against `lotw.arrl.org`, no credentials submitted at any point.

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