generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: 'https://geocode-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/services?wsdl and https://route-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/services?wsdl'
note: >-
  ArcGIS Server exposes a SOAP Service Catalog alongside its REST directory, and Esri's hosted
  location-service hosts still serve it. Both documents were fetched live on 2026-09-07 (HTTP 200,
  text/xml) and saved VERBATIM — neither was authored or edited. Ownership is unambiguous: the
  targetNamespace is http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/3.7.0 and each soap:address points back at
  the Esri host it was fetched from.
  SCOPE CAVEAT, stated plainly: this is the CATALOG service, not the geocoding or routing
  operations. It answers "what services live here and do they need a token", nothing more. The
  per-service WSDLs (e.g. .../World/GeocodeServer?wsdl) return HTTP 403 "The administrator has
  disabled the Service Directory", so the operation-level SOAP contracts are not published.
documents:
  - file: esri-geocode-api-service-catalog.wsdl
    url: https://geocode-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/services?wsdl
    http_status: 200
    content_type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
    bytes: 12230
    fetched: '2026-09-07'
    service: ArcGIS Server Service Catalog (geocoding host)
    target_namespace: http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/3.7.0
    soap_address: https://geocode-api.arcgis.com:443/arcgis/services
    operations: [GetFolders, GetMessageFormats, GetMessageVersion, GetServiceDescriptions, GetServiceDescriptionsEx, GetTokenServiceURL, RequiresTokens]
  - file: esri-route-api-service-catalog.wsdl
    url: https://route-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/services?wsdl
    http_status: 200
    content_type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
    bytes: 12228
    fetched: '2026-09-07'
    service: ArcGIS Server Service Catalog (routing host)
    target_namespace: http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/3.7.0
    soap_address: https://route-api.arcgis.com:443/arcgis/services
    operations: [GetFolders, GetMessageFormats, GetMessageVersion, GetServiceDescriptions, GetServiceDescriptionsEx, GetTokenServiceURL, RequiresTokens]
misses:
  - {url: 'https://geocode-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer?wsdl', http_status: 403, body: 'Error: The administrator has disabled the Service Directory'}
  - {url: 'https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest?wsdl', http_status: 200, content_type: text/html, note: 'ArcGIS Portal Directory HTML page, not a WSDL — the ?wsdl query is ignored.'}