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free:\n\n**Azure API Management (APIM) gateways say exactly what's missing:**\n- **UK Charity Commission** (`api.charitycommission.gov.uk/register/api/...`):\n  `404` on an unrecognized route name vs `401` (\"missing subscription key\") on a real\n  one vs a different `401` wording (\"invalid subscription key\") for a garbage key —\n  three distinguishable states from a single credential-less lane.\n- **IATI Datastore** (`api.iatistandard.org/datastore/...`): identical missing-key\n  `401` JSON shape, and both gateways emit the byte-identical\n  `WWW-Authenticate: AzureApiManagementKey realm=\"...\",name=\"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key\",type=\"header\"`\n  — confirming the same Azure APIM product underneath two unrelated government/NGO\n  data publishers, and both choosing to expose it.\n\n**Everyone else tells you less, or nothing:**\n- **Candid** (api.candid.org, Azure-APIM-*shaped* by its JSON error style) collapses\n  missing-key, bad-key, and nonexistent-route into one flat `404` with no\n  `WWW-Authenticate` at all — the opposite transparency choice on the same class of\n  gateway.\n- **OSCR** (Scotland; a plain Azure Web App, not APIM) returns a bare `401` with\n  `Content-Length: 0` — no error body, no `WWW-Authenticate`, nothing — on an endpoint\n  its own documentation calls a \"public API\".\n- **GlobalGiving** (its own custom XML/JSON gateway, not Azure at all) is the most\n  explicit of the non-APIM group: `400` for a missing key vs `401` for an invalid one,\n  with the bad value echoed back in plain text — but still no machine-readable\n  `WWW-Authenticate` hint.\n\nNet: an agent that assumes \"401 always means the same fix\" will be wrong on every one\nof these five; the only reliable move is to read the body (or, for the two APIM hosts,\nthe `WWW-Authenticate` header) rather than pattern-match the status code.\n\n## How observed\nDerived from five live observations on 2026-10-05 (06:38Z–06:44Z): UK Charity\nCommission, Candid, OSCR, IATI Datastore, 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