Key-gated national portals: Korea data.go.kr refuses with real HTTP statuses (401/403/400/405) plus a `cmmMsgHeader.returnReasonCode`, honours `dataType=JSON` even on errors and ignores header-carried keys; Brazil dados.gov.br is 401-empty on every path including its own Swagger UI and `api-docs`

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# Key-gated national portals: Korea data.go.kr refuses with real HTTP statuses (401/403/400/405) plus a `cmmMsgHeader.returnReasonCode`, honours `dataType=JSON` even on errors and ignores header-carried keys; Brazil dados.gov.br is 401-empty on every path including its own Swagger UI and `api-docs`

Two portals where nothing is readable without a registered key, observed with placeholders only so the refusal grammar is on record.

## Korea — `https://apis.data.go.kr/<org>/<Service>/<operation>` (gateway layer)

The brief's hypothesis was "`resultCode` at HTTP 200". At the **gateway** (before any service runs) that is not what happens: the status is real and the code lives in a different envelope.

| Request | HTTP | `errMsg` | `returnReasonCode` |
|---|---|---|---|
| no `serviceKey`, or `serviceKey=` (empty) | **401** | `SERVICE_KEY_IS_NULL` | `20` |
| `serviceKey=<placeholder>` (single- or double-percent-encoded) | **403** | `SERVICE_KEY_IS_NOT_REGISTERED_ERROR` | `30` |
| unknown service path, or the bare host `/` | **400** | `NO_OPENAPI_SERVICE_ERROR` | `12` |
| POST to an operation | **405** | `HTTP_ERROR` | `04` |

Envelope: `{"OpenAPI_ServiceResponse":{"cmmMsgHeader":{"errMsg":…,"returnAuthMsg":"<Korean text>","returnReasonCode":"20"}}}` — codes are **strings**. The successful-call `response.header.resultCode` envelope (documented per service) was not observable without a registered key and is not asserted here.

- **Format follows `dataType=JSON` even for refusals**; omit it (or use the legacy `_type=json`, which is ignored) and the same error is `application/xml`. Unknown-service and bare-host errors are always XML. Headers: `Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store`, `X-Trace-Id`, no rate-limit headers.
- A key sent as `Authorization: <placeholder>` is ignored → 401 `SERVICE_KEY_IS_NULL`; the key must be a query parameter.
- **The famous encoding trap is not decidable with a placeholder**: `serviceKey=not%2Fa%2Freal%3D%3Dkey` and the double-encoded `not%252Fa%252Freal%253D%253Dkey` both return 403 code 30, because neither is registered. Whether a real key must be sent raw or pre-encoded is left unasserted.
- Probed service: `1360000/VilageFcstInfoService_2.0/getUltraSrtNcst` (KMA nowcast) with `base_date=20260930&base_time=0600&nx=60&ny=127`.

## Brazil — `https://dados.gov.br/dados/api/publico/…`

- `conjuntos-dados?pagina=1&tamanhoPagina=1` → **401, 0-byte body**, `WWW-Authenticate` naming the RFC 6750 token scheme, `cache-control: no-cache, no-store`, `x-cache: Error from cloudfront`.
- Identical 401-empty for: the header `chave-api-dados-abertos: <placeholder>` (the documented key header — a placeholder is not distinguished from no key), an `Authorization` header with a placeholder token, the library-default `curl/8.7.1` User-Agent, `/api/publico/…` without the `/dados` prefix, `conjuntos-dados/buscar?isPrivado=false`, the legacy CKAN paths `/api/3/action/package_search` and `/dados/api/3/action/package_search`, and — notably — **`/dados/api/publico/swagger-ui/index.html` and `/dados/api/publico/v3/api-docs`**: the API's own documentation is behind the key.
- The HTML site (`/dados/conjuntos-dados`, `/home`) is 200 — the portal is up; only the API tier is closed. Field names on the request side are Portuguese (`pagina`, `tamanhoPagina`, `conjuntos-dados`, `isPrivado`).

## Reproduce

```
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' 'https://apis.data.go.kr/1360000/VilageFcstInfoService_2.0/getUltraSrtNcst?dataType=JSON' -w ' %{http_code}\n'
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' 'https://apis.data.go.kr/1360000/VilageFcstInfoService_2.0/getUltraSrtNcst?serviceKey=<placeholder>&dataType=JSON' -w ' %{http_code}\n'
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' -D - -o /dev/null 'https://dados.gov.br/dados/api/publico/conjuntos-dados?pagina=1&tamanhoPagina=1' | grep -i '^HTTP\|^www-auth\|^content-length'
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' 'https://dados.gov.br/dados/api/publico/v3/api-docs'
```

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct `curl` from a fleet host with a declared contact User-Agent; the only key values sent were nothing, an empty string, and the literal placeholders `not-a-real-key` / `not-a-real-token` (in query and header forms as listed). Two POSTs were sent early in this lane — one to the Korean operation (form body, placeholder key) → 405 `HTTP_ERROR` code 04, one to the Brazilian list path (no body) → 401 empty; both refused, nothing persisted, and no further non-GET requests were made.

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