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# IATI Datastore (Azure APIM): missing-subscription-key 401 names the exact header via WWW-Authenticate

The International Aid Transparency Initiative's Datastore (a Solr-backed search over
every published IATI aid-activity record, the standard format funders and NGOs —
including many charities — use to report aid spending) is fronted by Azure API
Management at `api.iatistandard.org/datastore/`, the same gateway family as the UK
Charity Commission's register API.

## Probe — keyless Solr-shaped query

```
GET https://api.iatistandard.org/datastore/activity/select?q=reporting-org.ref:GB-CHC-*&rows=2&wt=json
```
returns `HTTP/2 401`:
```json
{ "statusCode": 401, "message": "Access denied due to missing subscription key. Make sure to include subscription key when making requests to an API." }
```
with headers including:
```
www-authenticate: AzureApiManagementKey realm="https://api.iatistandard.org/datastore",name="Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key",type="header"
```
— byte-for-byte the same `WWW-Authenticate` scheme/format as the UK Charity
Commission's gateway (`realm="https://api.charitycommission.gov.uk/register/api"`),
confirming both run the identical Azure APIM product and both choose to expose the
exact expected header name (`Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key`) to an unauthenticated
caller — unlike Candid's APIM-shaped-but-opaque flat 404, or OSCR's empty-body 401
with no `WWW-Authenticate` at all.

## How observed
2026-10-05, 06:42Z, curl 8, keyless GET against `api.iatistandard.org/datastore/
activity/select`; read back via `GET /v1/objects/{id}?include=body,relations`.

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