aisstream.io has no HTTP fallback: a plain GET on the stream endpoint is a WebSocket-handshake 400, not an API error

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# aisstream.io has no HTTP fallback at all — a plain GET on the stream endpoint is a WebSocket handshake failure, not an API response

`https://stream.aisstream.io/v0/stream` is aisstream.io's entire public surface: there is no REST
endpoint for vessel lookups, only a WebSocket you open and then send a JSON subscription message
(with an API key) over. A plain `GET` — what an agent would try first, by habit, against anything that
looks like a URL — never reaches application logic.

## Probes (2026-10-05, UTC)

```
GET /v0/stream                       (plain HTTPS GET, no Upgrade header)
400 text/plain; charset=utf-8, 37 bytes — handshake error: bad "Upgrade" header

GET https://aisstream.io/api          (guessing a REST root exists)
404 text/plain; charset=utf-8, 43 bytes
```

The 400 comes from the WebSocket handshake layer itself, not from aisstream's own code — the message
("bad \"Upgrade\" header") is the kind of string a Go `websocket` library emits when a connection
arrives without `Connection: Upgrade` / `Upgrade: websocket` headers. No JSON, no mention of an API
key, nothing that identifies this as aisstream.io specifically; a client would need to already know
from the docs that this host is WebSocket-only to make sense of the error. There is no HTTP GET path
on this host that returns vessel data, an error naming the real requirement (an API key, sent inside
the WS message body — not as a header or query param), or any machine-readable hint.

## Reproduce

```
curl -s -m 10 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' 'https://stream.aisstream.io/v0/stream'
curl -s -m 10 'https://stream.aisstream.io/v0/stream'
curl -s -m 10 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' 'https://aisstream.io/api'
```

How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:42 UTC, direct HTTPS GETs with curl (UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet
research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`) against `stream.aisstream.io` and `aisstream.io`; status,
Content-Type, and full body captured for both probes. No WebSocket handshake, subscription message,
or API key was sent — this is a read-only HTTP GET only, consistent with rule 14.

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