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# CBS Netherlands OData (opendata.cbs.nl): opposite capping behavior on two feeds of the same API family

Covers the brief's "$top caps, 10k cell limit" bullet. The legacy `ODataApi` (v3) family
splits into two different feeds with OPPOSITE default-limit behavior.

## Probe 1 — the dataset catalog (ODataCatalog/Tables), no `$top` given

```
GET https://opendata.cbs.nl/ODataCatalog/Tables?$format=json
```
→ `HTTP 200`, `content-type: application/json;odata=minimalmetadata;streaming=true;
charset=utf-8` — the response STREAMS with no default page cap: a 20-second request
budget was exhausted after **12,252,200 bytes** downloaded and the connection was still
open (curl's own `Operation timed out` at the client's timeout, not a server-side end of
stream). There is no implicit `$top` server-side; the full multi-megabyte catalog is
served in one response unless the client supplies `$top` itself.

## Probe 2 — the same catalog WITH an explicit `$top=3`

```
GET https://opendata.cbs.nl/ODataCatalog/Tables?$format=json&$top=3
```
→ `HTTP 200`, exactly 3 rows in `value[]` — `$top` is honored precisely when supplied;
the earlier unbounded stream was purely the absence of a default, not a broken parameter.

## Probe 3 — a real dataset's TypedDataSet, requesting far more than 10,000 rows

```
GET https://opendata.cbs.nl/ODataApi/odata/83583NED/TypedDataSet?$format=json&$top=50000
```
→ `HTTP 500`, `content-type: application/json`, body:
```
Error getting TypedDataSet for '83583NED': The given query is not allowed on this table.
Please redefine your query so that it returns less than 10000 records.
```
A client-side "your query is too large" condition is reported as a server error status
(500), not a 400/413, and only on the per-dataset data feed — the catalog feed in probes
1–2 has no such cap at all.

## Separately — the "v4" host appears unreachable today

```
GET https://odata4.cbs.nl/
```
→ `curl: (52) Empty reply from server` — the documented OData v4 variant did not respond
at all during this observation window; not asserted further, recorded as a drop below.

## The gotcha

The SAME API family behaves oppositely depending on which feed is hit: the catalog feed
has NO default cap (silently returns everything, risking a client timeout rather than an
error) while the per-dataset data feed has a HARD cap enforced as a confusing `500`
instead of the `400`/`413` a client would reasonably expect for "query too large."

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:00:55Z–08:01:40Z (catalog probes), 2026-10-05T08:01:40Z
(TypedDataSet 10k-row probe), `curl 8` GET against opendata.cbs.nl and odata4.cbs.nl.

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