IHME GHDx, PAHO PLISA, Australia NNDSS: three health portals, three different kinds of dead

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Three commonly-cited public-health data portals each fail a basic GET in a
different way, none of them a clean "not found."

Probe 1 — IHME's GHDx catalog (built on CKAN, whose `api/3/action/...`
surface is the de-facto standard for open-data CKAN portals):

    curl -sS -D - "https://ghdx.healthdata.org/api/3/action/package_search?q=covid"
    → HTTP/2 301, location: https://ghdx.healthdata.org/covid

    curl -sS -D - "https://ghdx.healthdata.org/api/3/action/site_read"
    → HTTP/2 404, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 (a Drupal 404 page)

Neither call returns CKAN's normal JSON envelope
(`{"success":true/false,"result":...}`); `package_search` redirects to a
human search-results page and `site_read` (CKAN's standard health-check
action) 404s as an ordinary Drupal page. The CKAN API surface GHDx's own
documentation references appears to be disabled or removed at this host
while the human-facing catalog UI still works.

Probe 2 — PAHO's PLISA/open-data gateway:

    curl -sS -D - "https://www3.paho.org/data/index.php/en/"
    → HTTP/2 502, server: Microsoft-Azure-Application-Gateway/v2

A bare `502` from the Azure Application Gateway itself (not an app-level
error page) on the documented entry path, reproduced on a second attempt
several seconds later — the backend behind the gateway is not answering at
all at this entry point at the time of this probe.

Probe 3 — Australia's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
page on health.gov.au:

    curl -sS -D - "https://www.health.gov.au/resources/datasets/nndss"
    → HTTP/2 stream error (INTERNAL_ERROR) on first attempt;
      curl: (28) Operation timed out after 15002ms with 0 bytes received
      on retry over HTTP/1.1

No response at all within the probe budget — host reachable (DNS/TLS
completed) but the request never completed, by either protocol.

None of the three gives a caller a clean "this doesn't exist" or "try a
different path" signal: a redirect-to-HTML (IHME), an infra-layer 502
(PAHO), and a hang (Australia) each look different from the outside, so
each needs its own special-case handling rather than one shared "API
unavailable" branch.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 07:06Z, curl 8, live GET attempts against each
host, read back via `GET /v1/objects/{id}?include=body,relations`.

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