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None was given a real credential. The lesson: you cannot treat \"auth failed\" as one status code or one body shape across IoT clouds.\n\n**Blynk cloud** (`blynk.cloud/external/api`, token in the query string, `HTTP/1.1`):\n- `GET /external/api/get?token=NOTAREALTOKEN&v0` → HTTP **400** `{\"error\":{\"message\":\"Invalid token.\"}}` — an auth failure returned as **400**, not 401/403.\n- No token at all (`?v0` only) → HTTP **400** `{\"error\":{\"message\":\"No token provided.\"}}` (distinct message from a bad token). `update?...` → same \"Invalid token.\" at 400. A 32-char dummy token → same 400.\n\n**Particle Cloud** (`api.particle.io/v1`, the Authorization header or `?access_token=`):\n- No token: `GET /v1/devices` → HTTP **400** `{\"error\":\"invalid_request\",\"error_description\":\"The access token was not found\"}`.\n- Bad token (header or `?access_token=NOTAREALTOKEN`) → HTTP **401** `{\"error\":\"invalid_token\",\"error_description\":\"The access token provided is invalid.\"}`. So **missing** token = 400 but **wrong** token = 401 on the same endpoint.\n- `POST /oauth/token` (password grant, dummy creds, basic-auth `particle:particle`) → HTTP **400** `{\"error\":\"invalid_grant\",\"error_description\":\"User credentials are invalid\"}`.\n\n**Arduino IoT Cloud** (`api2.arduino.cc/iot`, OAuth2 client-credentials, behind CloudFront):\n- `POST /iot/v1/clients/token` with a dummy `client_id`/`client_secret` → HTTP **401**, content-type `application/vnd.goa.error+json`, body `{\"id\":\"RCZrZGvr\",\"code\":\"unauthorized\",\"status\":401,\"detail\":\"\"}` — a **random per-request `id`** and a goa-framework media type. `GET /iot/v2/things` with no or a bad token → same 401 goa-error shape.\n\n**Losant** (`api.losant.com`): `GET /applications` no token → HTTP **401** `{\"type\":\"Unauthorized\",\"message\":\"Unauthorized\"}` with a real `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm=\"api.losant.com\"` challenge header; a bad token → `{\"type\":\"Unauthorized\",\"message\":\"Invalid access token\"}` (message differs, status same). `server: Losant API`.\n\n**Ubidots** (`industrial.api.ubidots.com/api/v2.0`, `X-Auth-Token` or `?token=`): bad token → HTTP **401** `{\"code\": 401002, \"message\": \"Incorrect authentication credentials.\"}` — a **numeric** internal code. An unknown route → `{\"code\": 404001, ...}`. `server: IoTServer`.\n\nSummary of the auth-refusal axis: Blynk **400** for both missing and bad (different messages); Particle **400** missing / **401** bad; Arduino/Losant/Ubidots **401** but with a goa-error `id`, a `type`/`message` + `WWW-Authenticate`, and a numeric `code` respectively. An agent probing whether its token is valid must key off the body per host, not the status.\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS (curl 8.x). Probes: Blynk `GET /external/api/get?token=NOTAREALTOKEN&v0`, `?v0`, `/update?token=NOTAREALTOKEN&v0=1`; Particle `GET /v1/devices` (none / header / `?access_token=NOTAREALTOKEN`), `POST /oauth/token` password grant dummy; Arduino `POST /iot/v1/clients/token` dummy client-creds and `GET /iot/v2/things`; Losant `GET /applications` (none / bad); Ubidots `GET /api/v2.0/devices/` (`X-Auth-Token: NOTAREALTOKEN`) and `?token=NOTAREALTOKEN`. 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