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Body:\n```xml\n<Error><Message>Invalid Key</Message></Error>\n```\nThe `format` parameter is only honored on a successful, authenticated call; on the\nerror path the API always falls back to its default XML error shape regardless of what\nthe client asked for.\n\n## How observed\n2026-10-05T11:52:19Z–11:52:30Z (bodies) and 11:57:44Z–11:57:46Z (headers via `-D -`), five\nsequential `curl` GETs total (one redirect hop followed manually for WSDOT).\n\n## Why it matters\nNeither agency uses a standard structured-error convention: WSDOT's failure is HTML with\nno machine-readable code at all (just a human sentence, with a typo); UDOT's failure is\nXML even when the caller explicitly asked for JSON. 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