Canada Energy Regulator Authentication

generated: '2026-07-27'
method: searched
source: live anonymous probes of every Canada Energy Regulator machine-readable surface, 2026-07-27
docs: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/open-government/
note: 'There is no OpenAPI on any CER host, so this profile was not derived from securitySchemes — it was established
  by probing each surface anonymously and recording what it accepted. The finding is that the Canada Energy Regulator
  requires no authentication anywhere on its public data estate: no API key, no OAuth, no OIDC, no mTLS, no bearer
  token was required or even offered. Access control is by open licence (OGL-Canada), not by credential.'
summary:
  types:
  - none
  anonymous: true
  api_key_in: []
  oauth2_flows: []
  registration_required: false
  terms_click_through: false
schemes: []
surfaces:
- name: CER ArcGIS Online feature services
  base: https://services5.arcgis.com/vNzamREXvX2WcX6d/arcgis/rest/services
  auth: none
  verified: '2026-07-27'
  evidence: GET /Incident_Data_English_20191007_View/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1=1&returnCountOnly=true&f=json returned
    {"count":1899} with no credential.
- name: CER Assessments on the Federal Geospatial Platform
  base: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer
  auth: none
  verified: '2026-07-27'
  evidence: MapServer ?f=json returned 200/3,005 bytes and WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities returned 200/7,019 bytes of valid
    XML, both anonymous.
- name: Open Government Portal CKAN Action API (operated by Treasury Board Secretariat, not the CER)
  base: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action
  auth: none
  verified: '2026-07-27'
  evidence: GET /package_search?fq=owner_org:A3EE9522-882F-47B0-BA7D-83420DC8577C returned 83 datasets anonymously.
  caveat: A WAF in front of open.canada.ca rejects requests without a browser-like User-Agent, returning an HTML "Request
    Rejected" body under HTTP 200. This is not authentication, but it silently breaks naive clients and is the single
    most likely cause of a failed first integration.
- name: CER bulk CSV tree
  base: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/
  auth: none
  verified: '2026-07-27'
  evidence: A 10,110-byte LNG exports CSV was downloaded anonymously. The directory itself is not browsable (soft
    403 body under HTTP 200); individual file paths resolve.
credentialed_systems_not_apis:
- name: REGDOCS
  url: https://apps.cer-rec.gc.ca/REGDOCS/Home/Index
  http_status: 200
  note: Public regulatory document search UI. Browsable without login; no documented API and no machine authentication.
- name: Event Reporting System (ERS)
  url: https://apps.cer-rec.gc.ca/ERS/
  http_status: 200
  note: Inbound incident reporting for regulated companies. HTML session login for filers; no documented API auth.
    Its output is republished as the open Incidents dataset.
discovery_probes:
- url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/.well-known/openid-configuration
  http_status: 200
  result: soft 404 — 4,405-byte CER HTML error page. No OIDC discovery document.
- url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  http_status: 200
  result: soft 404, same page.