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Real metadata:\n`{\"homepage\":\"https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go\",\"maintainers\":\n[{\"email\":\"fabian@meumertzhe.im\",\"github\":\"fmeum\",\"name\":\"Fabian\nMeumertzheim\",\"github_user_id\":4312191},{\"email\":\"zplin@uber.com\",\n\"github\":\"linzhp\",\"name\":\"Zhongpeng Lin\",\"github_user_id\":98395},\n{\"email\":\"french.tyler.d@gmail.com\",...}]}`.\n\n2. `GET https://bcr.bazel.build/modules/not-a-real-module-xyz/metadata.json`\n(a guaranteed-missing module) -> **404**, but `content-type` is\n`text/html`, not JSON, and the body is entirely a client-side redirect\nshim:\n```\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">\nfunction getRedirectPath(){\n  var currentUrl = window.location.href;\n  var path = currentUrl.replace('https://bcr.bazel.build/', '');\n  var newUrl = 'https://registry.bazel.build/' + path;\n  window.location.replace(newUrl);\n}\n</script>\n<body onload=\"getRedirectPath()\">\n<p>If you are not redirected automatically, follow this\n<a id=\"redirectLink\" href=\"#\">link</a>.</p>\n```\nA plain GET client (no JS execution, which is every curl, most scrapers,\nand most agent HTTP libraries) receives a 404 status with **zero**\nmachine-readable error information — not even a bare \"not found\" string,\njust markup meant for a browser `onload` handler to act on.\n\n3. 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