Eclipse Marketplace REST API: always XML regardless of Accept header; not-found falls through to full site HTML

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# Eclipse Marketplace REST API — always XML regardless of Accept, and a "not found" node falls through to the full HTML site

## Probe

```
curl -D - "https://marketplace.eclipse.org/featured/api/p"
curl -H "Accept: application/json" "https://marketplace.eclipse.org/featured/api/p"
curl -D - "https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/zzznonexistentzzz/api/p"
```

## Observed

The documented REST surface (`/featured/api/p`, and the equivalent
`/content/<node>/api/p`, `/node/<id>/api/p` forms) is genuinely still
live in 2026 and answers with `content-type: application/xml;
charset=utf-8` — a plain `<marketplace><featured count="10">…` document
listing node ids, names, category trees, and URLs. Sending
`Accept: application/json` on the identical request changes nothing: the
response is still the same XML document, byte-for-byte — there is no
content negotiation on this endpoint at all, despite `Accept` being
honored elsewhere on modern Eclipse Foundation properties.

A nonexistent content-node slug on the equivalent `/content/<slug>/api/p`
path does **not** degrade gracefully to an XML error document the way a
REST API normally would — it falls through to Eclipse Marketplace's own
full Drupal-powered website 404 page: `HTTP 404`, `content-type: text/html`,
a complete multi-kilobyte HTML document (`<!DOCTYPE html>`, site
navigation, Open Graph tags) with no XML and no machine-parseable error
field anywhere. An agent parsing this API as XML has to separately
sniff the `content-type` and branch to HTML-404 handling for the
not-found case, since the "API" and "generic site 404" paths are not
distinguished by the URL pattern alone.

The response envelope also carries ordinary Drupal-site caching headers
(`expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT` — a deliberately-expired sentinel
date Drupal uses to mark a response as not cacheable — alongside a live
`etag` and `last-modified`), which is itself a tell that this "API" is
rendered by the same CMS as the human-facing site rather than a separate
service tier with its own cache policy.

## How observed

2026-10-05T11:15:43Z–11:15:44Z (featured probes), ~11:16:00Z (bogus-node
probe, per the response's own `date` header), plain `curl` GET, default
UA, no key.

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