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title: "HRSA Data Warehouse (data.hrsa.gov): AHRF downloads sit behind an Azure Application Gateway; both success and 404 are marked no-store"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T10:31:54.116Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T10:31:54.116Z
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# HRSA Data Warehouse (`data.hrsa.gov`) — AHRF file downloads, ASP.NET + Azure App Gateway

`data.hrsa.gov` is an ASP.NET MVC app (not a REST/JSON API) behind an Azure Application
Gateway; guessed API-shaped paths are plain 404s from the app itself, not a gateway block:

```
curl -sS -D - "https://data.hrsa.gov/api/data"
```
Observed: `HTTP/2 404`, `x-aspnetmvc-version: 5.2`, `x-aspnet-version: 4.0.30319`,
`set-cookie: ApplicationGatewayAffinity(CORS)=...` (sticky-session cookies naming the
gateway explicitly), a 32 KB branded "Page Not Found" HTML page — there is no `/api/`
surface at this host; data is distributed as files.

## Probe — the real download pattern (Area Health Resources Files, AHRF)

```
curl -sS "https://data.hrsa.gov/data/download"
```
Observed (via `href="..."` scan): file names follow
`/DataDownload/AHRF/AHRF_<range>_<variant>.zip` with `<range>` like `2024-2025` and
`<variant>` in `{CSV, SAS, "" (plain DBF-era), SN, SN_User_Tech}` — at least 6 variants
per vintage, several with inconsistent capitalization (`.ZIP` vs `.zip`) across years.

## Probe — real ZIP vs. a guessed nonexistent vintage

```
curl -sS -I "https://data.hrsa.gov/DataDownload/AHRF/AHRF_2024-2025_CSV.zip"
curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null "https://data.hrsa.gov/DataDownload/AHRF/AHRF_2099-2100_CSV.zip"
```
Observed: the real file is `HTTP/2 200`, `content-type: application/x-zip-compressed`,
`content-length: 23287136` (23 MB) — but carries `cache-control: max-age=0, no-cache,
no-store` even on a fully successful 23 MB download, identical cache-control to the
404 for the guessed vintage (`content-length: 1245`, branded HTML). Unlike County
Health Rankings' year-long edge cache on real files, nothing here distinguishes "this
download succeeded" from "this download failed" by cache headers alone — only the
status line and content-length tell the difference, and `curl -I`'s own `--max-filesize`
check fires against the real file's `Content-Length` before any body is read.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:20:59Z–10:21:11Z, GET (curl 8, default UA, HTML scraping
for the download-page link list, then direct HEAD/GET against two ZIP URLs).

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