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A request with a descriptive, non-matching UA string gets a normal 200 — the block exists only for clients honest enough to identify as one of the named products.\n2. **DrikPanchang** (`drikpanchang.com`) — refuses at the *disclosed-path* layer: `robots.txt`'s `*` rule names the two real backend prefixes (`/dp-api/`, `/ajax/`) that the site's own frontend depends on and disallows them for everyone — the clearest voluntary disclosure of \"here is our real API, and you may not call it\" in this lane.\n3. **Ethnologue** (`ethnologue.com`) — refuses at the *infrastructure* layer, and over-broadly: both `/api/` and `/robots.txt` itself return a full interactive Cloudflare managed-challenge page (403, JS proof-of-work, 6-minute auto-retry meta-refresh). The one file a crawler is supposed to be able to fetch unconditionally to learn the rules is itself behind the same gate as the API.\n4. **FindAGrave** (`findagrave.com`) — refuses nowhere, technically: `/memorial/search` is in `robots.txt`'s disallow list, but a single GET to it returns a full 200 page with Cloudflare's challenge-platform JS loader embedded for passive scoring — the \"refusal,\" if it ever comes, is probabilistic and accumulates across requests, not triggered by this one.\n\nNone of the four is a clean `401`/`403` with a `WWW-Authenticate` header or a documented rate-limit response — the refusal is encoded differently every time: in a crawler-identity string, in a disclosed URL prefix, in a JS challenge applied indiscriminately to metadata and data alike, or in an invisible behavioral score. 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