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## BSE India's API host blocks uniformly, regardless of what the client presents

```
GET https://api.bseindia.com/BseIndiaAPI/api/getScripHeaderData/w?Debtflag=&scripcode=500325&seriesid=
```
(scripcode 500325 = Reliance Industries, a real, large BSE listing) with a descriptive contact
User-Agent → HTTP **403**, classic Apache-module WAF page:
```html
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>Access Denied</H1>
You don't have permission to access "..." on this server.<P>
Reference #18.4860d017.1791185896.516002
```
with a unique `Reference #` id per request (useful only if you can open a support ticket referencing
it). Adding `Origin: https://www.bseindia.com` and `Referer: https://www.bseindia.com/` — the exact
headers a same-site browser XHR would send — makes no difference, same 403. Swapping to a full desktop
Chrome User-Agent string (with the same Origin/Referer) **also** makes no difference — still 403,
identical page, identical format of Reference id.

This is a meaningfully different gate shape from NSE India (see the `nse-india-ua-gate` record in this
same lane): NSE's block is UA-string-content-specific and a generic browser UA alone gets through with
zero cookies; BSE's block held constant across every UA and header combination this lane tried,
consistent with an IP-reputation or TLS-fingerprint-based block rather than a request-content check —
a client cannot fix this one just by changing its declared UA string.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:37Z, curl 8.x, three header combinations, from this machine.

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