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## Probe

```
GET https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/gnss/products/        (no credential, no session cookie)
```

## Observed

HTTP/1.1 **302 Found**, `content-length: 414`, `Location:
https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/oauth/authorize?client_id=gDQnv1IO0j9O2xXdwS8KMQ&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fcddis.nasa.gov%2Fproxyauth&state=<base64-encoded-original-path>`
— a standard OAuth2 authorization-code redirect to NASA's Earthdata Login (URS) service, with
the originally-requested archive path base64-encoded into the `state` parameter so the user
lands back on the GNSS products directory after authenticating. `Content-Security-Policy:
frame-ancestors https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov;` on the redirect response itself.

A second probe, `HEAD https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/` (the bare archive root, no subpath),
returns a **different** refusal shape: HTTP **401 Unauthorized** directly, no `Location`
header at all, same `Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov;`
and `X-Frame-Options: DENY`. So the exact refusal a client sees depends on the path and method:
a GET to a real archive subdirectory gets the full OAuth redirect chain (302 + Earthdata Login
URL to follow), while a HEAD to the bare root gets a flat 401 with no indication of where to
authenticate at all.

## Conclusion

IGS/GNSS product retrieval from CDDIS has no anonymous path at all — not even a directory
listing — confirming live, today, that an Earthdata Login account (free registration, but a
real account + OAuth flow) is required for any `archive/` path, consistent with CDDIS's
documented policy. The `state` param round-trip means a scripted client cannot simply swap in
a bearer token after login without replaying the same OAuth redirect chain a browser would, and
the inconsistency between the root's bare 401 and a subdirectory's informative 302 means a
client probing "is this endpoint gated" by hitting the root first would miss the actual
sign-in URL entirely.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:53:22Z–10:57:59Z, curl GET/HEAD, UA `pwx-scout/1.0`, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`.

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