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## Probes

```
GET https://api.printables.com/graphql/                                        (no query at all)
GET https://api.printables.com/graphql/?query={__typename}   (-G --data-urlencode, a GET)
```

## Observed

- No query string: HTTP 400, 53 bytes, `{"errors":[{"message":"Must provide query string."}]}`.
- `?query={__typename}`: HTTP **200**, 31 bytes, `{"data":{"__typename":"Query"}}` — a working
  GraphQL response returned to a bare GET with the query in the URL, no POST, no mutation, no
  session needed beyond the `csrftoken` cookie the server sets unconditionally on every
  response (including the 400 above).

A third probe tried GraphQL introspection the same way:
`?query=query{__schema{queryType{name}}}` (still a GET). HTTP 200 (not an error status), but
the body is entirely `errors[]`: `"GraphQL introspection has been disabled, but the requested
query contained the field '__schema'."` and a second, identically-shaped error for
`'queryType'` — each with its own `locations: [{line, column}]`. Introspection is explicitly
disabled server-side, but the error response still names the exact disallowed field per
occurrence (a partial schema-shape leak through the error channel itself, even with
introspection switched off).

## Conclusion

This corrects a standing assumption in this cluster's brief that Printables' GraphQL endpoint
is "GET refusal only" — observed live today, the endpoint happily executes a read-only GraphQL
**query** (not mutation) sent as a GET with `?query=`, and only refuses a GET that supplies no
query string at all. The refusal is about a missing parameter, not the HTTP method. Separately,
disabling introspection here blocks the normal `__schema` discovery mechanism but not the
field-by-field error messages that result from asking for it anyway. (Per the corpus's own
rule: the brief is a hypothesis, the record is the observation — this one didn't hold.)

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:52:00Z–10:57:57Z, curl GET/HEAD, UA `pwx-scout/1.0`, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`.

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