Ginnie Mae Authentication

generated: '2026-09-12'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live anonymous probes of https://www.ginniemae.gov/api/v1/ and the ginniemae.gov
  authentication surfaces, 2026-09-12.
provider: Ginnie Mae
providerId: ginnie-mae
description: >-
  Authentication profile for Ginnie Mae's public API surface. There is no
  credential to obtain and none is advertised: the JSON:API content surface answers
  anonymous requests in full. Everything Ginnie Mae does gate sits on different
  hosts and is not an API.
schemes: []
summary:
  requires_authentication: false
  scheme_count: 0
  note: >-
    Every one of the 120 JSON:API resource collections at
    https://www.ginniemae.gov/api/v1/ returned HTTP 200 to an unauthenticated GET
    on 2026-09-12, as did all nine Views REST exports and the RFC 9264 linksets.
    No Authorization header, API key, cookie or referer was sent. The OpenAPI in
    openapi/ therefore declares no securitySchemes — an accurate description of the
    surface, not a gap in the description.
apis:
  - aid: ginnie-mae:ginnie-mae-content-api
    baseURL: https://www.ginniemae.gov/api/v1
    authentication: none
    evidence: 'HTTP 200 anonymous on 120/120 collections, 2026-09-12'
gated_surfaces:
  - name: MyGinnieMae Enterprise Portal
    host: my.ginniemae.gov
    mechanism: SSO / partner login
    evidence: >-
      https://my.ginniemae.gov/webcenter/portal/public 302s to
      https://access.ginniemae.gov/auth (Oracle Access Manager), HTTP 200 at the
      login challenge. Issuer, document-custodian and pool-processing systems live
      behind it. Probed 2026-09-12.
  - name: Disclosure Data Download
    host: bulk.ginniemae.gov
    mechanism: free registered account (email + secret question + emailed key)
    evidence: >-
      https://bulk.ginniemae.gov/ HTTP 200 serves an Angular client whose runtime
      configuration (https://bulk.ginniemae.gov/assets/config/config.prod.json,
      HTTP 200) names a download service at
      https://www.ginniemae.gov/disclosure-api/api and a login route at
      https://www.ginniemae.gov/disclosure/download-login. Anonymous GET of the
      download service returns the SPA shell, not data. Account creation is at
      https://www.ginniemae.gov/disclosure/create-account. Probed 2026-09-12.
  - name: Subscription / user-profile services
    host: www.ginniemae.gov
    mechanism: account session
    evidence: >-
      https://www.ginniemae.gov/subscriptions/api and
      https://www.ginniemae.gov/user-profiles/api both return HTTP 403 to an
      anonymous request. Probed 2026-09-12.
oauth:
  published: false
  note: >-
    Drupal's simple_oauth module is installed (consumer--consumer,
    oauth2_scope--oauth2_scope and oauth2_token--access_token / auth_code /
    refresh_token are all exposed as JSON:API resource types) but no authorization
    server is published. /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server,
    /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, /.well-known/openid-configuration and
    /oauth/token each return HTTP 200 with the Angular application shell rather
    than metadata — an SPA catch-all, not a document. No scopes/ artifact is written
    for this provider because there is no scope surface to describe.
docs: null
docs_note: >-
  Ginnie Mae publishes no authentication documentation for this API because it
  publishes no documentation for the API at all.