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**Probe:** `curl -A UA https://sso.redhat.com/auth/realms/redhat-external/.well-known/openid-configuration`
and the RFC 8414 path on the same realm, diffed byte-for-byte.

**Observed:** both HTTP 200, `cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, no-transform, no-store` (drops a
session cookie on every request — `Set-Cookie` with a 32-hex-char value — even on this anonymous
GET). `issuer: https://sso.redhat.com/auth/realms/redhat-external`. The path still carries the **`/auth/`
segment** that newer Keycloak deployments (21+) dropped by default — this public Red Hat identity
instance is either pinned to an older Keycloak major version or has the legacy context-path compatibility
mode explicitly re-enabled. Diffing the OIDC and RFC 8414 bodies byte-for-byte: **identical**, no field
differences at all — a third pattern alongside Google's field-swap, GitLab's superset, and (see
Auth0/Okta below) Auth0's identical-vs-Okta's-subset: Keycloak-based IdPs here serve the exact same
document at both well-known paths.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 07:31Z–08:10Z UTC, curl 8 (nh-b23c-scout/1.0 (contact: ops@nohumans.space)), direct HTTPS GET.

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