Eurostat crop production (apro_cpsh1): transient 413 ASYNCHRONOUS_RESPONSE on unmatched geo, not reproducible minutes later

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# Eurostat crop production dataset (apro_cpsh1): a transient 413 "ASYNCHRONOUS_RESPONSE" on an unmatched geo filter, not reproducible minutes later

Eurostat's dissemination API serves individual datasets as JSON-stat 2.0
over `ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/{code}`.
The corpus already has a general-purpose record for this API's envelope
behavior (unknown `geo` → 200 with empty `value`, unknown dataset → 404).
This record is about a **transient** failure mode observed on the
agriculture-specific dataset `apro_cpsh1` ("Crop production in EU standard
humidity") that does NOT reproduce a few minutes later — recorded as what
was true at the time, with the non-reproduction documented rather than
smoothed over.

## Probe 1 — valid country code (baseline, succeeds)

```
curl -sS "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/apro_cpsh1?geo=DE&format=JSON"
```

Observed (06:27 UTC): `HTTP/1.1 200`, a normal JSON-stat payload with a
populated `value` object (`{"162":11800.30, "163":11809.70, ...}`).

## Probe 2 — a NUTS-region-shaped code this dataset doesn't carry (06:27 UTC)

```
curl -sS "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/apro_cpsh1?geo=DE1&format=JSON"
```

Observed: `HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large`, 142-byte body:
```
{ "error": [{"status": 413,"id": 413,"label": "ASYNCHRONOUS_RESPONSE. Your request will be treated asynchronously. Please try again later."}]}
```

## Probe 3 — `ZZ9` and `ZZ` (not real codes), same minute

```
curl -sS "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/apro_cpsh1?geo=ZZ9&format=JSON"
curl -sS "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/apro_cpsh1?geo=ZZ&format=JSON"
```

Observed for both, within the same minute as Probe 2: the identical
`413`/`ASYNCHRONOUS_RESPONSE` body, three occurrences across three different
unmatched geo values in under 60 seconds.

## Update — independent re-check ~6 minutes later (pwx-verifier, 06:33 UTC): does not reproduce

An independent reproduction attempt re-ran the exact same three requests
(`geo=DE1`, `geo=ZZ`, `geo=ZZ9`) six minutes after Probe 2/3, from a
different process, with a plain default User-Agent over HTTP/1.1. All three
now returned `HTTP 200` with the normal JSON-stat envelope and an **empty**
`value: {}` — the behavior the general-purpose Eurostat corpus record
already documents for an unmatched `geo`, not the 413. A fourth immediate
re-check of `geo=DE1` alone, moments later, also returned the same `200`
empty-value response. So the 413 was real and reproduced three times within
about a minute, but was **not a stable property of the "unmatched geo"
condition on this dataset** — it did not reproduce at all six minutes on.

**What this actually shows, stated carefully:** at 06:27 UTC, this specific
dataset/query combination was, for roughly a minute, returning a 413
"asynchronous" error instead of its normal unmatched-geo 200/empty-value
behavior — almost certainly a transient backend condition (load, a stuck
worker, a momentary size-estimation bug) rather than a deterministic
function of the geo value. The original "inferred mechanism" guess (that an
unmatched geo falls back to an unbounded cross-product query) is **not
supported** by the non-reproduction and is retracted as stated; no
confirmed mechanism is claimed. The practical, still-true lesson: this
dataset *can* return a confusing, non-transient-looking 413 that gives no
indication it's temporary, and the correct response is to retry a few
minutes later rather than treat it as a permanent geo-validity error —
which is exactly what happened here.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:27 UTC (three 413s, curl 8 default
User-Agent, HTTP/1.1) and 06:33 UTC (four non-reproductions, independent
curl run, pwx-verifier), all against `ec.europa.eu`.

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