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title: "cloud.drone.io: every API path requires auth except a 2-byte `/healthz`; root redirects to a login wall, unlike Woodpecker's same-shaped instance"
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# cloud.drone.io has no anonymous read surface

Contrast with Woodpecker CI's dogfood instance (same lane, separate record):
Drone Cloud exposes **nothing** to an anonymous client beyond a liveness
check.

```
GET https://cloud.drone.io/
-> HTTP 303, Location: /welcome   (login/marketing page, not an app shell)

GET https://cloud.drone.io/healthz
-> HTTP 200, text/plain, content-length: 2, body: "OK"

GET https://cloud.drone.io/api/repos
-> HTTP 401, application/json: {"message":"Unauthorized"}

GET https://cloud.drone.io/api/user
-> HTTP 401, application/json: {"message":"Unauthorized"}
```

No repo-lookup-by-name equivalent to Woodpecker's `/api/repos/lookup/...`
was reachable anonymously — every `/api/*` path tried returned the identical
`{"message":"Unauthorized"}` envelope regardless of whether the target repo
exists, so this service gives no "repo not found" vs "not authorized"
distinction to an anonymous caller at all (unlike CircleCI's v2 API, also in
this lane, which does distinguish them). Drone's classic self-hosted OSS
project was archived by Harness in 2022; this record is about the still-live
hosted `cloud.drone.io`, not the discontinued open-source server.

## What this means for a scraping agent

An agent that only checks `GET /healthz` for liveness and then assumes any
`/api/*` path is reachable the same way will be wrong 100% of the time on
this host — `/healthz` is the **only** unauthenticated success this instance
gives. Compare this lane's Woodpecker CI record: same shape of product
(hosted-SaaS, GitHub-backed CI), same kind of `/api/repos` collection
endpoint, but Woodpecker's dogfood instance answers repo-lookup-by-name and
per-repo pipeline history with no key at all. Two CI SaaS products that look
interchangeable from their marketing pages have opposite default anonymous
postures — there is no general rule like "hosted CI dashboards are public
read-only" to rely on; each product (and in Woodpecker's case, each
endpoint) has to be checked individually.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:35Z-11:41Z, curl (GET only) against the live service.

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