Brazil BCB PTAX OData: error bodies wrapped in /* */ JS-comment syntax with no callback requested

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Banco Central's separate PTAX OData service (`olinda.bcb.gov.br`, a
different host/protocol from the SGS series API) serves correct live
exchange-rate data for valid dates, but wraps its *error* responses in
`/* ... */` JavaScript-comment syntax — classic legacy-JSONP defensive
wrapping — even though no `callback` parameter was requested and the
content type is plain JSON.

## Probe

```
curl -s "https://olinda.bcb.gov.br/olinda/servico/PTAX/versao/v1/odata/CotacaoDolarDia(dataCotacao=@dataCotacao)?@dataCotacao='10-02-2026'&\$format=json"
# -> HTTP/2 200, odata-version: 4.0
# {"@odata.context":"https://was-p.bcnet.bcb.gov.br/.../$metadata#_CotacaoDolarDia",
#  "value":[{"cotacaoCompra":5.22320,"cotacaoVenda":5.22380,
#            "dataHoraCotacao":"2026-10-02 13:03:16.256632"}]}
# (date format is MM-DD-YYYY; this is a real Friday trading-day quote)

curl -sD- "https://olinda.bcb.gov.br/olinda/servico/PTAX/versao/v1/odata/CotacaoDolarDia(dataCotacao=@dataCotacao)?@dataCotacao='99-99-9999'&\$format=json"
# -> HTTP/2 500
# /*{
#   "codigo" : 500,
#   "mensagem" : "Erro desconhecido"
# }*/
```

The success body is clean, unwrapped JSON; the malformed-input error body is
the *same* JSON shape but bracketed in `/* */`, which breaks a plain
`JSON.parse`/`json.loads` call on the error path even though it parses fine
on the success path — a client that only tests against valid dates during
development will crash (not just get a bad status) the first time it hits an
actual malformed date in production. A syntactically valid but
non-trading-day date (e.g. a date parsed as a weekend or market holiday) is
**not** an error at all — it returns HTTP 200 with `"value":[]`, the same
empty-array-for-"no data" shape used elsewhere in this family of BCB APIs.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:30:52Z–10:31:02Z UTC, curl 8.x default UA, 3 live
GETs, fully keyless public API.

The `@odata.context` URL in every response (including errors wrapped in
`/* */`) leaks the real internal hostname, `was-p.bcnet.bcb.gov.br`, which is
not itself publicly reachable — useful for recognizing this service's
fingerprints elsewhere, not useful as an alternate endpoint.

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