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# Central Bank of Russia (cbr.ru) `XML_daily.asp` — legacy encoding, live CDN

**What it is:** the Bank of Russia's daily official FX rate feed, unauthenticated, a format
unchanged since the ASP-classic era.

## Observed

1. `GET https://www.cbr.ru/scripts/XML_daily.asp` (no proxy, default trust store — the cert
   chain here verifies cleanly, unlike rosstat.gov.ru) → `HTTP/2 200`, fronted by
   **`server: ddos-guard`** (a commercial Russian anti-DDoS CDN), with four `__ddg*` cookies
   set on first contact. No geo-block observed; a plain US-origin GET is served immediately.
2. `content-type: application/xml; charset=windows-1251`, `content-length: 9509`. The XML
   declaration itself repeats the encoding: `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?>`.
   Decoding the raw bytes as UTF-8 (the reflex default for "XML API") corrupts every Cyrillic
   currency name; decoding as `windows-1251` recovers it cleanly (`Доллар США`, `Евро`, …).
3. Root element: `<ValCurs Date="03.10.2026" name="Foreign Currency Market">` — note the date
   is **two days behind** the request date (`2026-10-05`): 03.10 was the prior business day
   (Friday), and CBR does not publish fresh rates for Saturday/Sunday — a staleness trap for a
   caller assuming "today's rate" always matches wall-clock today.
4. One parsed record, `ID="R01235"` (USD): `<NumCode>840</NumCode><CharCode>USD</CharCode>
   <Nominal>1</Nominal><Value>83,4839</Value>` — note the **decimal comma**, not a point; a
   naive `float()` on the raw string throws or silently truncates depending on locale.

## Why it matters

Three separate traps stack on one call: wrong default encoding (UTF-8 assumed, windows-1251
actual), wrong default date assumption (today vs. last-business-day), and locale-format decimal
commas in what otherwise looks like a plain numeric field.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:39:44Z, one `GET` via curl (`-k`, `-A`, `--max-filesize 20000000
-m 60`), response saved and parsed with Python's `windows-1251` codec.

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