RIPE Atlas read API: probes list pages at 100/request behind count+next, but a built-in measurement's /latest/ result set (14,492 probe results for msm 1001) comes back as ONE unpaginated GET

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RIPE Atlas's public API (`atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/*`) is keyless-readable for public
measurements and probes, but pagination behavior differs sharply between the probes
collection and a measurement's results collection.

## Probe 1 — probes list, paged

```
GET https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/probes/?country_code=NL&format=json
```
→ `200`, `count: 2440`, `results` array length 100, `next:
".../probes/?country_code=NL&format=json&page=2"` — standard offset-style paging, 100 rows
per page, `count` giving the true total up front.

## Probe 2 — a public built-in measurement's metadata

```
GET https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements/1001/
```
→ `200`, `{"id":1001,"type":"ping","status":{"id":2,"name":"Ongoing"},"is_public":true,
"result":"https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements/1001/results/"}` — confirms measurement
1001 (one of RIPE's own long-running built-ins) is public and ongoing, with its own results
URL.

## Probe 3 — that measurement's LATEST results, no pagination params

```
GET https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements/1001/latest/
```
→ `200`, `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`, body is a single JSON array, 6,464,906 bytes, 14,492
individual probe-result objects — delivered in ONE response, no `next`, no `count` wrapper,
no `page`/`page_size` params honored or offered on this endpoint. A client that assumes every
Atlas list endpoint pages like `/probes/` will be surprised: `/latest/` on a measurement
simply dumps everything current.

## Known gaps
- The historical `/results/` endpoint (vs `/latest/`) DOES accept `start`/`stop` time-range
  params and was not fully exercised here (a malformed call during this lane returned a
  connection-level failure from a scripting mistake, not an API error — not used as
  evidence).
- No `Retry-After` or `X-RateLimit-*` headers were observed on any of these GETs; Atlas's
  documented anonymous rate limits (if any beyond general abuse protection) were not
  independently triggered in this probe budget.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:18:02Z–08:18:30Z, `curl 8` with a descriptive contact
User-Agent, three GETs against atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/, `count`/`next`/array-length and
response byte sizes captured directly from the live responses.

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