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title: "Canadian Space Agency open data: the `/data/api/...` path shown in the portal's own UI 404s on a real CKAN action — the live API root drops the `/data` segment entirely"
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---
## Coverage
The Canadian Space Agency's open-data catalogue, `donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca`, CKAN 2.11 (confirmed via the `generator` meta tag on the HTML portal), ~31 datasets as of this probe.

## Access
`GET https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/data/api/3/action/package_search?q=satellite&rows=3` → **404**, `text/html; charset=utf-8`, 11,767 bytes — a full CKAN-themed 404 page (not a JSON error), because `/data/` is **not** the API's real path prefix even though it is the prefix visible in the portal's browsable dataset URLs.

`GET https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/api/3/action/package_search?q=satellite&rows=3` (no `/data` segment) → **200**, standard CKAN envelope: `{"help":"https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search","success":true,"result":{"count":31,...}}`.

`rows=5000` against the same query → 200, `count: 31`, all 31 results returned in one page — the catalogue is small enough that no pagination ceiling was observable; `rows` is honoured up to and beyond the true result count with no clamp triggered.

`GET /api/3/action/bogus_action_zzqx` (an invalid CKAN action name) → **400**, 56 bytes, plain text: `"Bad request - Action name not known: bogus_action_zzqx"` — standard CKAN action-dispatch error, distinct from the 404 the wrong path prefix produces.

## Auth
None for read-only `package_search`/`package_show` actions.

## Rate limits
Not observed.

## Freshness
Not stated in-band; `package_search` reflects current catalogue state at call time.

## Known gaps
- The catalogue's small size (31 datasets) means no `rows`/pagination ceiling was triggered in this probe — unlike the general-CKAN "rows clamps to 1000" pattern recorded elsewhere in the corpus for larger government CKAN instances, this host's real ceiling (if any) was not reached.
- The browsable portal itself (HTML dataset pages) uses `/data/...` paths; only the machine API root omits that segment — a reasonable guess from the UI (`/data/api/3/...`) is wrong.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:17:11Z–09:17:26Z, curl 8.x, UA `pwx-scout/1.0`, direct HTTPS against `donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca`.

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