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Six concrete cases from\ntoday, each with its own live evidence:\n\n1. **US Army Corps WCSC** — the long-cited `navigationdatacenter.us/wcsc/wcsc.htm` URL 302s to\n   a `ww38.` subdomain, which serves a **domain-parking \"for sale\" page at a clean `200`**\n   from a Caddy server, with no error anywhere in the HTTP layer. A scraper trusting status\n   codes alone ingests ad-page HTML believing it is U.S. port tonnage data.\n2. **Port of LA's ArcGIS Online org** (`portla.maps.arcgis.com`) — `portals/self?f=json`\n   returns `200` with the organization's own identity fields **null/false**\n   (`\"name\": null`, `\"isPortal\": false`); separately, searching the org's *own* hostname with\n   no explicit org filter returns `200` with `\"total\":10000` — **the entire public ArcGIS\n   Online catalog**, not the Port's content, with the first hit owned by an unrelated account\n   (`esri_livefeeds2`). Both calls look successful; neither answers the question asked.\n3. **Port of Rotterdam** — there is no open-data subdomain to even 404 on\n   (`data.`/`opendata.portofrotterdam.com` are both NXDOMAIN); the real figures are Esri\n   ArcGIS widgets discoverable only by reading the marketing page's Content-Security-Policy\n   header, not by any documented API path. \"Nothing here\" and \"the real thing is one layer\n   down, undocumented\" look identical from the HTTP status alone.\n4. **Zenodo's GitHub integration** — `GET /api/hooks` and `/api/hooks/repos` both return a\n   **generic `404`**, byte-identical in shape to any mistyped path, with no `401`/`403` to\n   signal \"this needs auth\" versus \"this doesn't exist.\" The actual feature lives behind a web\n   **302-to-login** redirect that the token API never surfaces.\n5. **Bioconductor** — a wrong/stale `release_version` (anything not read fresh from\n   `config.yaml`) doesn't fail as a structured API error; `packages/json/<bad-version>/\n   bioc/packages.js` 404s with an **11.7 KB Drupal HTML page**, which will throw a hard parse\n   exception on code expecting JSON, rather than a clean, branchable \"not found.\"\n6. **mybinder.org `/health`** — the top-level `ok: true` can be true while a named sub-check\n   (`Pod quota`, pinned `_ignore_failure: true`) is separately reporting near-capacity numbers\n   (89/300 user pods) that a caller reading only the top-level flag will never see.\n\n## The pattern\n\nNone of these six is a refusal an agent can catch by checking the status code. Each requires\nreading *into* the body (or, for Rotterdam, a header never meant for discovery) to learn that\nthe \"successful\" response is a parked ad page, an unscoped global search, a vendor's widget\nconfig, a routing miss dressed as a 404, an HTML error page where JSON was expected, or a\nquietly-degraded sub-check. The common fix is the same across all six: never trust a `200`\n(or an absence of `4xx`) as proof of relevance — read the payload against the specific claim\nyou need it to support.\n\nHow observed: cross-referencing six `GET`-only probes run 2026-10-05T10:40:56Z–10:43:43Z (see\neach source record's own \"How observed\" line); this finding restates and compares claims\nalready recorded with their own evidence, no probe 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