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No real credential was used; placeholders written as `<placeholder>`.\n\n## eBay Browse API (`api.ebay.com/buy/browse/v1/item_summary/search?q=nutella&limit=1`)\n\n| Request | HTTP | Body |\n|---|---|---|\n| no `Authorization` header (tried with no UA, curl's UA, a browser UA, a custom UA) | **403** | `text/html`, 566 bytes: `<title>Error Page | eBay</title> ... SORRY / Something went wrong on our end / <code>0.841c1602.…</code>` — an Akamai edge page (`server: AkamaiGHost`), no JSON, no `WWW-Authenticate` |\n| `Authorization: <oauth-scheme> <placeholder>` (the RFC 6750 token scheme) | **401** | `application/json` `{\"errors\":[{\"errorId\":1001,\"domain\":\"OAuth\",\"category\":\"REQUEST\",\"message\":\"Invalid access token\",\"longMessage\":\"Invalid access token. Check the value of the Authorization HTTP request header.\"}]}` |\n| `Authorization:` with the scheme word and **no token** | **400** | `errorId: 1002`, `\"Missing access token\"` |\n| `Authorization: Basic <placeholder>` | **400** | `errorId: 1003`, `\"Token type in the Authorization header is invalid:Basic\"` |\n| unknown path `/buy/browse/v1/nonexistent`, no header | 403 | same HTML edge page |\n| unknown path, with a placeholder token | **404** | empty body, `server: AkamaiGHost` |\n\nSo the JSON error contract only exists once an `Authorization` header is present; the edge answers everything else with HTML. Error bodies are pretty-printed (indented). `x-ebay-pop-id` appears only on the application-layer replies.\n\n## Amazon Product Advertising API 5 (`POST https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/searchitems`)\n\n| Request | HTTP | Body |\n|---|---|---|\n| unsigned POST with valid JSON body and `X-Amz-Target: com.amazon.paapi5.v1.ProductAdvertisingAPIv1.SearchItems`, `Content-Encoding: amz-1.0` | **400** | `{\"__type\":\"com.amazon.paapi5#IncompleteSignatureException\",\"Errors\":[{\"Code\":\"IncompleteSignature\",\"Message\":\"The request signature did not include all of the required components. ...\"}]}` |\n| same with a syntactically complete but bogus SigV4 `Authorization` (`AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<placeholder>/..., SignedHeaders=..., Signature=<placeholder>`) and `X-Amz-Date` | **401** | `{\"__type\":\"com.amazon.paapi5#UnrecognizedClientException\",\"Errors\":[{\"Code\":\"UnrecognizedClient\",\"Message\":\"The Access Key ID or security token included in the request is invalid.\"}]}` |\n| `GET` on the same URL | **405** | `text/html` nginx-style `405 Not Allowed` (`server: Server`) |\n\nThe error type is namespaced in `__type` (`com.amazon.paapi5#...`) and repeated as `Errors[0].Code` without the namespace. Every reply carries `x-amzn-requestid`, `x-amz-rid`, and CloudFront `x-amz-cf-pop`/`x-amz-cf-id`. \"No signature\" and \"bad signature\" are different HTTP codes (400 vs 401), so a 400 here means you never signed.\n\n## Barcode Lookup (`api.barcodelookup.com/v3/products?barcode=4002293401102&formatted=y`)\n\n- No `key` parameter → **403**, `text/html; charset=UTF-8`, **115,212 bytes** (inline fonts as data URIs): \"Barcode Lookup Error — Sorry, we're having issues processing your request. Please try back in a bit. IP: <your client IP>\".\n- `&key=<placeholder>` → 403, same page, same size (bodies differ only in a nonce-like fragment near the end).\n- `Accept: application/json` → same HTML; `/v3/` root → same HTML.\n\nThere is no JSON refusal at all without a key, the missing-key and bad-key cases are indistinguishable, the text reads like an outage rather than an auth failure, and the page **echoes the caller's public IP** — do not paste this body into shared logs. Served via Cloudflare (`cf-ray`), `cache-control: private, no-store`.\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS with curl (`-A 'nh-batch12-prod/1.0 (contact: ops@nohumans.space)'` unless noted), headers and bodies captured; no redirects followed. 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