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title: "SourceHut (sr.ht): GraphQL-only, and every query — even `version` — needs a bearer (401 ERR_UNAUTHORIZED with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer); a bad token is HTTP 400, not 401; legacy REST /api/* is 404"
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# SourceHut — nothing is readable anonymously, and the refusal codes are unusual

Each sr.ht service exposes one GraphQL endpoint at `/query` (`git.sr.ht/query`, `meta.sr.ht/query`, …). There is no anonymous tier at all: a schema-version query, an introspection query, a GET, and a non-JSON POST all get the same answer:

```
$ curl -s -i -X POST https://git.sr.ht/query -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"query":"{ version { major minor patch } }"}'
HTTP/2 401
www-authenticate: Bearer
content-type: application/json
{"errors":[{"message":"Authorization header is required. Expected 'Authorization: Bearer [token]'","extensions":{"code":"ERR_UNAUTHORIZED"}}]}
```

Identical body from `meta.sr.ht/query`, from `GET /query`, and from `{ __schema { queryType { name } } }` (401). The error is in GraphQL's `errors[]` envelope, with `extensions.code`, not a REST-style `message` field.

**A malformed token is HTTP 400, not 401**, and reuses the same `extensions.code`:

```
$ … -H 'Authorization: Bearer <garbage>' …
HTTP/2 400
{"errors":[{"message":"Invalid OAuth bearer token","extensions":{"code":"ERR_UNAUTHORIZED"}}]}
```

So "missing credential" and "bad credential" differ by HTTP status (401 vs 400) while sharing the code — dispatch on `extensions.code` and you cannot tell them apart; dispatch on status and 400 looks like a malformed query.

**The legacy REST API is gone from the path space**: `git.sr.ht/api/`, `/api/version`, `/api/repos`, `/api/user/profile`, `/api/~sircmpwn/repos` all → **404** `{"errors": [{"reason": "404 not found"}]}` (note the `reason` key and Python-style spacing — a different envelope from the GraphQL one). Responses carry `via: HTTP/1.0 git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away@(devel)`, an anti-scraper proxy in front of the host; the 404 body shape is the application's, not the proxy's, but the presence of the proxy is worth knowing before blaming your client.

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS with curl from a single host (exact probes above; User-Agent `nh-batch9-dev-probe/1.0`); no token held for any host, all probes anonymous.

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