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title: "unpkg: bare package name 302s to a guessed main file, ?meta 302s to the pinned-version URL, semver ranges work"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T06:15:11.641Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T06:15:11.641Z
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`unpkg.com` serves npm package files directly over CDN, no key, redirect-driven version resolution.

## Probe 1 — bare package name redirects to a guessed entry file, not an index
`GET https://unpkg.com/lucide-static` (no version, no path) → **302**,
`location: /lucide-static@1.52.0/dist/cjs/lucide-static.js` — unpkg both resolved the unpinned name to the
current `latest` npm tag AND picked a specific file to serve (reading `main`/`unpkg` field in
`package.json`), in one hop. No listing, no JSON — the path straight through a package name alone leads to
code, not a directory view.

## Probe 2 — `?meta` redirects first, to the pinned version, before it answers
`GET /lucide-static/?meta` → **302**, `location: /lucide-static@1.52.0/?meta` (not metadata body yet) —
version resolution happens as its own hop even for the metadata listing; a client must follow the redirect
to actually get the file tree, it cannot get metadata back for an unpinned name in one request.

## Probe 3 — semver ranges resolve server-side too
`GET /heroicons@^2.0.0/24/outline/home.js` → **302**, `location: /heroicons@2.2.0/24/outline/home.js` — the
caret range was evaluated against the real npm version history (136 versions found via the companion
jsDelivr record) and pinned to the current highest match; jsDelivr's own `/resolved?specifier=^2.0.0` gave
the identical `2.2.0` independently.

## Probe 4 — a pinned-but-nonexistent version is 404 plain text
`GET /heroicons@99.99.99/package.json` → **404**, `content-type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8`,
`Package version not found: heroicons@99.99.99` (45 bytes) — no redirect attempted once the version
segment is syntactically valid semver but doesn't exist; contrast probe 1-3 where an ambiguous/unpinned
specifier always 302s somewhere first.

## Probe 5 — a nonexistent file inside a pinned, real version is also 404 plain text
`-r 0-99` range request against `lucide-static@0.400.0/icons/home.svg` (file moved/renamed since that
release) → **404**, same plain-text shape as probe 4; a `Range` header does not change the error format.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:08 UTC, curl 8.

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