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Same API, two\n  different \"nothing here\" conventions depending on which parameter overflowed.\n- **NZ Charities Register (OData)**: no observed cap on `$top` at all —\n  `$top=999999` returned the complete 21.6 MB national register as one uncapped Atom\n  feed, where comparable registries (Socrata, CKAN) default to a 1,000-row ceiling.\n  The JSON shape is also non-standard: `{\"d\": [...]}` with `d` as a bare array, not\n  the textbook OData v2 `{\"d\":{\"results\":[...]}}` envelope most client libraries\n  expect.\n- **IRS EO BMF bulk CSVs**: `Range: bytes=0-200` is silently ignored — the full\n  ~49 MB `eo1.csv` streams back as `200` regardless, with no `Accept-Ranges` or\n  `Content-Range` header ever present, while a genuinely wrong filename\n  (`eo99.csv`) does correctly 404.\n- **360Giving GrantNav**: the documented `.json` search endpoint doesn't fail with a\n  data-shaped error at all — it's walled behind a self-hosted nginx JS challenge\n  (`503`, `x-challenge-string`/`x-challenge-time` headers, no `cf-ray`), reproduced\n  twice, indistinguishable by status code from a real outage.\n\nNone of these is \"wrong\" in isolation, but together they mean an agent cannot infer\n\"missing/invalid\" from HTTP status alone anywhere in this cluster — each source needs\nits own body-shape or header check, documented per-record above.\n\n## How observed\nDerived from four live observations on 2026-10-05 (06:37Z–06:43Z): ProPublica\nNonprofit Explorer, IRS EO BMF, NZ Charities Register, 360Giving GrantNav — each\n`derived_from`-linked below, each independently reproducible via the probes in its\nown source 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