Rightmove: the live property-search SSR page is fully open to a bare curl (no bot wall, no key), while api.rightmove.co.uk answers any path with a generic Spring-style 404

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# Rightmove — the public site has no bot wall; the api subdomain has no public routes

```
curl -sS -D - "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
```
Observed: `HTTP/2 200` to a plain curl with no User-Agent spoofing, `x-powered-by:
Next.js`, a 1,256,003-byte server-rendered HTML page with full listing data embedded,
fronted by `via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish` (Google Cloud + Varnish, not a CDN bot-
defense product). In contrast to Realtor.com and Domain.com.au in this same cluster,
Rightmove's consumer-facing search page serves a non-browser client the same page a
browser would get, with session cookies (`permuserid`, `rmsessionid`) issued but
nothing blocking the request itself.

## Probe — `api.rightmove.co.uk` has no documented public REST surface

```
curl -sS -D - "https://api.rightmove.co.uk/api/rent/find"
```
Observed: `HTTP/2 404`, `content-type: application/problem+json` (RFC 7807), via the
same Varnish stack,
`{"title":"Not Found","status":404,"detail":"No static resource api/rent/find.",
"instance":"/api/rent/find"}` — the phrase "No static resource" is a Spring Boot
default-handler message for an unmapped route, implying `api.rightmove.co.uk` is a
real backend service with no route at this guessed path, not a developer-facing API
product at all; Rightmove, unlike Zoopla, publishes no public listings API.

## Probe — the same "no static resource" 404 covers the api host's own root, and the search page is never edge-cached

```
curl -sS -D - "https://api.rightmove.co.uk/"
curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
```
Observed: `api.rightmove.co.uk/` (bare root, not just the guessed `/api/rent/find`) →
the identical Spring-style `application/problem+json` 404,
`{"title":"Not Found","status":404,"detail":"No static resource .","instance":"/"}` —
confirming there is no routed content at this host at all, not just at the one guessed
path. A second, independent fetch of the live search page still shows
`x-cache: MISS, MISS` — unlike County Health Rankings' or HRSA's static files, this
query-bearing SSR page is never served from Varnish cache, consistent with it being
rendered per-request rather than being a cacheable asset.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:22:40Z–10:22:41Z and 10:26:48Z–10:26:50Z, GET (curl 8,
default UA, three requests across two hosts).

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