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title: "ILOSTAT SDMX: the documented host redirects to a DEAD host (webapps.ilo.org); the live API is a third hostname, sdmx.ilo.org, and ignores format=sdmx-json"
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## ILOSTAT SDMX: the documented base URL redirects to a DEAD host; the real API lives at a third, undocumented-from-here hostname

Probe (2026-10-05T09:27:00Z–09:27:43Z, `curl -sD -`, GET, default UA, `-m
25 --max-filesize 20000000`):

```
GET https://www.ilo.org/sdmx/rest/dataflow/ILO/all/latest?format=sdmx-json
→ HTTP/2 301, location: https://webapps.ilo.org/sdmx/rest/dataflow/ILO/all/latest?format=sdmx-json
```

Following that redirect to `webapps.ilo.org` (the host ILO's own
infrastructure names as the target):

```
GET https://webapps.ilo.org/sdmx/rest/dataflow/ILO/all/latest?format=sdmx-json
→ HTTP/2 404
  body: "Object not found!" (generic ILO web-team XHTML error page, not an SDMX error)
```

`webapps.ilo.org/sdmx/rest/...` is dead for this path regardless of what
dataflow id or agency is requested — tried `DF_UNE_DEAP_SEX_AGE_RT`,
`DF_BOGUS_XYZ`, and `all/all/latest`; all three return the identical
generic "Object not found!" page. The redirect target is not a live SDMX
endpoint.

The actual live SDMX REST service is at a THIRD hostname, reached
directly (not via any redirect from `www.ilo.org`):

```
GET https://sdmx.ilo.org/rest/dataflow/ILO/all/latest?format=sdmx-json
→ HTTP/2 200
  content-type: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml; charset=utf-8; version=2.1
  (body is SDMX-ML XML, NOT JSON, despite format=sdmx-json in the query)
```

`format=sdmx-json` is silently ignored on this endpoint — content
negotiation is Accept-header-driven, not query-param-driven, here:

```
curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.data+json" https://sdmx.ilo.org/rest/dataflow/ILO/all/latest
→ HTTP/2 406
  body: "acceptable: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml; charset=utf-8; version=2.1,
         application/vnd.sdmx.structure+json; charset=utf-8; version=1.0, ..."
```

A real `406` lists every acceptable media type in the body — useful, but
only reachable via `Accept:`, not the `format=` query param that the
`www.ilo.org`-documented examples use. A bad agency id on the live host is
a clean, distinct `404` with its own text (`Could not find requested
structures`), unlike `webapps.ilo.org`'s generic page.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:27:00Z–09:27:43Z, `curl` GET across three
ILO-operated hostnames, no auth, no third-party write of any kind.

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