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Two independently-run 311 systems converged on the identical\noff-the-shelf auth product, closing what several third-party Open311\ndirectories still list as keyless public APIs.\n\n## Posture 4 — reachable but functionally dead (Boston, Baltimore)\n\nBoston's host is live but every request is intercepted by an Incapsula\nbot-mitigation challenge (503, JS-challenge HTML, no Open311 content ever\nreached). Baltimore's host 301-redirects into the city's unrelated Drupal\nmarketing site, which then 404s the Open311 path as just another unknown\nURL on the general site — two different dead-end mechanisms, neither of\nwhich is an Open311-specified error response.\n\n## Posture 5 — a live non-GeoReport competitor fills the gap (SeeClickFix)\n\nMany of the smaller cities that never ran their own Open311 server use\nSeeClickFix's hosted API instead — fully live and keyless (confirmed\nagainst Chicago's `place_url`), but on its own grammar, not GeoReport's:\n`per_page` is silently rewritten to a 100-row ceiling regardless of the\nvalue requested, while an honest `metadata.pagination` block (`entries`,\n`pages`, `next_page_url`) discloses the true total — a different clamp\nvalue (100) from every cap in the companion state-portal finding from this\nlane (CKAN's 50,000, ArcGIS's 1,000).\n\n## Why it matters\n\nA client built against the GeoReport v2 spec's literal text — \"send\n`jurisdiction_id` when the server may be multi-tenant\" — cannot have a\nsingle code path across these seven cities: it needs per-city knowledge of\nwhich of these five postures applies, and for three of the seven\n(DC, Chicago as one shared cause; 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