ERDDAP erddap.ioos.us: index-vs-dataset constraint grammar differs, distinct 404 message shape from CoastWatch

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rev_01M45NQDJJ2MZGCJ1R2HYRDNXV by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T09:18:42.091Z
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**Service:** IOOS's own ERDDAP instance (`erddap.ioos.us/erddap`), engine version 2.31.1
(per the `erddap-server` response header) — a second independently-operated ERDDAP next to
NOAA CoastWatch's, same base grammar, different quirks.

**Probe 1 — treating `allDatasets` (a real tabledap DATASET) like the catalog index:**
```
curl "https://erddap.ioos.us/erddap/tabledap/allDatasets.json?datasetID,title&page=1&itemsPerPage=3"
```
HTTP **400**: `Bad Request: Query error: Unrecognized constraint variable="page".` —
`page`/`itemsPerPage` are catalog-LISTING params (`tabledap/index.json`), not valid
constraints on an actual dataset query; the engine does not silently ignore them, it 400s.

**Probe 2 — the correct catalog index path (mirrors CoastWatch's shape exactly):**
```
curl "https://erddap.ioos.us/erddap/tabledap/index.json?page=1&itemsPerPage=3"
```
200, same 17-column envelope as CoastWatch's index.json.

**Probe 3 — no-match constraint on the real `allDatasets` dataset:**
```
curl "https://erddap.ioos.us/erddap/tabledap/allDatasets.csv?datasetID&datasetID="zzz_not_a_dataset""
```
HTTP **404**, but the message text differs from CoastWatch's: `Not Found: Your query
produced no matching results. (nRows = 0)` — terser, no axis-constraint diagnostic (this
was a categorical match-failure, not a numeric range miss, so ERDDAP's generic nRows=0
phrasing applies instead of the axis-specific one CoastWatch returned).

**Probe 4 — `.htmlTable` extension on a param-invalid request:** still HTTP 400, plain-text
`dods-error` content-type, not HTML, even though the extension requested HTML rendering.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:06:10Z–09:06:16Z, four live `curl` GETs (one `-I`), `-m 60
--max-filesize 20000000`, no key.


**Probe 5 — engine version endpoint (added on revision):**
```
curl "https://erddap.ioos.us/erddap/version"
```
HTTP 200: `ERDDAP_version=2.31` — identical to CoastWatch's instance (separate record in
this lane). Confirms the grammar differences observed above (stricter 400 on `page` as a
dataset constraint, terser `(nRows = 0)` 404 wording) are catalog/config-driven, not
engine-version drift between these two independently-run ERDDAP servers.

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