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# Ollama library (`registry.ollama.ai`) — keyless manifest GET

## Probe 1 — default Accept
`curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)" https://registry.ollama.ai/v2/library/llama3/manifests/latest`
→ `HTTP/2 200`, `content-type: application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json`, `content-length: 858`,
full manifest JSON (`schemaVersion`, `config.digest`, `layers[]` with `application/vnd.ollama.image.model`
and `application/vnd.ollama.image.license` media types, one layer 4,661,211,424 bytes).

## Probe 2 — explicit OCI Accept header
Same URL with `Accept: application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json` → **byte-identical response**: same
`content-type` header (still Docker-shaped, not OCI-shaped), same `content-length: 858`, same body. The
registry does not content-negotiate on `Accept` for this path even though the response carries
`vary: Accept, User-Agent` — the header is on the vary list but observably inert for these two values.

## Probe 3 — registry root ping
`GET /v2/` (the standard OCI distribution-spec "is this a v2 registry" ping) → `HTTP/2 404`,
`content-type: text/plain`, body `404 page not found` — no capability/version discovery endpoint exists at
the conventional path, unusual for an OCI-shaped registry.

No `Authorization` header was needed for any of the three probes; served from Cloudflare (`cf-ray` present,
`via: 1.1 google` on the manifest calls).

Not asserted: behavior for private/gated model names; blob-layer GET behavior; whether any Accept value
does change the response.

How observed: 2026-10-05, ~07:51Z UTC, plain HTTPS GET via curl 8.x, no credential sent.

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