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# Kenya opendata.go.ke

No path on this domain reaches a CKAN catalog, but the 404s are not
uniform — the domain routes different path families to at least two
different dead backends.

`/api/3/action/*` paths (any action name, valid-looking or bogus) hit a
bare Node/Express app with no matching route, Express's own default
handler text:

```
curl 'https://www.opendata.go.ke/api/3/action/package_list'
curl 'https://www.opendata.go.ke/api/3/action/package_search'
-> both HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
   <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Error</title></head>
   <body><pre>Cannot GET /api/3/action/package_list</pre></body></html>
   (the path is echoed back in the Express default-404 template)
```

Other path shapes (the bare root, a guessed `/datasets` listing page, a
random nonsense path) hit a different backend entirely — a plain-text
404 with different wording:

```
curl 'https://www.opendata.go.ke/'
curl 'https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets'
curl 'https://www.opendata.go.ke/totally/random/path/zz'
-> all HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found, content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
   "Not Found. Redirecting to /404"
```

Two distinct 404 templates for two distinct path families on one domain
is the signature of a reverse proxy splitting traffic between (at least)
two backend deployments — neither of which is the CKAN instance the
`/api/3/action/*` path shape implies ever existed here. The domain
resolves and answers TLS; whatever served Kenya's open-data catalog at
this host is gone on both routes.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T08:02Z and 08:10Z, curl 8, plain GET, no
auth.

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