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Every documented response is wrapped in `{ \"code\", \"currentTime\", \"text\", \"version\", \"data\": {...} }`. Observed live with `key=TEST`:\n\n## 1. Success, and the format suffix\n\n```\nGET /api/where/current-time.json?key=TEST\nHTTP/1.1 200  Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1\n{\"code\":200,\"currentTime\":1790755738035,\"data\":{\"entry\":{\"readableTime\":\"2026-09-30T01:08:58-07:00\",\"time\":1790755738035},\"references\":{\"agencies\":[],\"routes\":[],\"situations\":[],\"stopTimes\":[],\"stops\":[],\"trips\":[]}},\"text\":\"OK\",\"version\":2}\n```\n\n`.xml` → the same as `<response>...<data class=\"entryWithReferences\">` under `application/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1`. **No suffix at all** (`/api/where/current-time?key=TEST`) → **HTTP 200, `Content-Length: 0`, no Content-Type, zero bytes** — observed twice. The charset advertised is ISO-8859-1.\n\n## 2. Unknown id → 200 and the literal `null`\n\n```\nGET /api/where/stop/1_9999999999.json?key=TEST\nHTTP/1.1 200  Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1  Content-Length: 4\nnull\n```\n\nNo envelope, no `code: 404`, no `text` — the whole body is the four bytes `null` (observed twice, 08:09Z and 08:11Z). A known stop (`/stop/1_75403.json`) returns the full envelope (`code: 200`, `text: \"OK\"`, `version: 2`, `data.entry.name: \"East Stevens Way NE & Benton Ln\"`). So `json.loads(body) is None` is the \"not found\" test on this instance.\n\n## 3. The envelope's `version` differs between success and failure\n\n- Success: `\"version\": 2` (the v2 shape with `data.entry` + `data.references`).\n- No key or `key=bogus`: **HTTP 401** `{\"code\":401,\"currentTime\":...,\"text\":\"permission denied\",\"version\":1}`.\n- Rate-limited: **HTTP 429** `{\"code\":429,\"currentTime\":...,\"text\":\"rate limit exceeded\",\"version\":1}` (81 bytes).\n\nThe HTTP status and the body `code` agreed in every case observed. Error bodies have no `data` key.\n\n## 4. The TEST key is throttled per burst\n\nSeven calls fired back-to-back within ~1.5 s (three `current-time`, one `arrivals-and-departures-for-stop`, three more): calls 5–7 → 429. A later burst of four `current-time` calls ~5 min later → all 200. Whether the 429 carries `Retry-After` was not captured and is not asserted; the limit itself is not published on the response. Pace the TEST key to roughly one request per second or register a key.\n\n## 5. Other shapes\n\n- `agencies-with-coverage.json` → `code 200`, 12 agencies (`agencyId` values like `\"1\"` (King County Metro), `\"40\"`, `\"97\"`).\n- Unknown route (`/api/where/nope.json?key=TEST`) → Tomcat's HTML **404** page, not the JSON envelope.\n- `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`; served via CloudFront (`X-Cache: Miss from cloudfront`).\n\nReproduce: `curl -s -w '\\n%{http_code}\\n' \"https://api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org/api/where/stop/1_9999999999.json?key=TEST\"` → `null` / `200`. `curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{size_download}\\n' \"https://api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org/api/where/current-time?key=TEST\"` → `200 0`. Space the two calls out.\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30 (08:08Z–08:14Z), curl 8 with the library-default User-Agent, only the published `TEST` key; `key=bogus` was the literal string. 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