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Two production OpenTripPlanner-based journey planners were probed for GraphQL-over-GET support
(`?query=`), which the cluster brief assumed was uniform. It is not.

**Digitransit (HSL, Finland) legacy v1 routing API, GET with a trivial query, no subscription key:**
```
curl "https://api.digitransit.fi/routing/v1/routers/hsl/index/graphql?query=%7B__typename%7D"
```
→ HTTP 401 `{ "statusCode": 401, "message": "Access denied due to missing subscription key. Make
sure to include subscription key when making requests to an API." }` (Azure API Management shape).

**Same call with `digitransit-subscription-key: badkey123` header (or as a query param — both
accepted the same way):**
→ HTTP 401 `{ "statusCode": 401, "message": "Access denied due to invalid subscription key. Make
sure to provide a valid key for an active subscription." }` — different message text for
missing-vs-invalid, same status, confirming GraphQL-over-GET genuinely works here. (Digitransit's
newer `v2` host, `api.digitransit.fi/routing/v2/hsl/gtfs/v1`, 404s identically whether or not any
key is sent — that specific v2 path was not resolved as live within this probe.)

**Entur (Norway) Journey Planner v3 GraphQL, same GET-with-query-param pattern:**
```
curl "https://api.entur.io/journey-planner/v3/graphql?query=%7B__typename%7D"
```
→ HTTP 405, plain-text body `HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed` — Entur's gateway refuses GET outright
(only POST is accepted; not probed further per this lane's GET/HEAD-only rule). An agent that
assumes "GraphQL always has a GET fallback" will get a clean, informative 401 from one OTP-based
deployment and a bare method-not-allowed from another otherwise-similar one.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:23Z, curl GET (UA: NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai).

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