Waze for Cities (PartnerHub feed API): a real feed path exists, but an invalid partner/feed id gets a bare Jetty 403 with zero machine-readable detail

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# Waze for Cities: path is real, but the refusal body is the least informative in this batch

## Probe 1 — wrong path shape

```
curl -s "https://www.waze.com/partnerhub-api/feed/info?feed_id=test"
→ HTTP 404, generic Jetty error page, SERVLET: PartnerHub
```

## Probe 2 — correct path shape, invalid partner/feed id

```
curl -s "https://www.waze.com/partnerhub-api/partners/1/waze-feeds/1?format=1&types=traffic"
```
**HTTP 403**:
```html
<html><body><h2>HTTP ERROR 403 Forbidden</h2>
<table><tr><th>URI:</th><td>/partnerhub-api/partners/1/waze-feeds/1</td></tr>
<tr><th>STATUS:</th><td>403</td></tr><tr><th>MESSAGE:</th><td>Forbidden</td></tr>
<tr><th>SERVLET:</th><td>PartnerHub</td></tr></table></body></html>
```

This confirms the real Waze for Cities feed URL shape is
`/partnerhub-api/partners/{partner_id}/waze-feeds/{feed_id}` (the 403 means the route was
matched and rejected for authorization, versus the 404 on the wrong path in Probe 1, which
means the route didn't exist at all) — but the refusal itself carries **no error code, no
message beyond the literal HTTP reason phrase, and no indication of what's wrong** (bad
partner id? bad feed id? IP not allowlisted? expired feed token, which Waze feed URLs
embed directly in the path rather than a header?). Compare this to TomTom/HERE's clean
JSON `{"error": "Unauthorized", ...}` bodies (companion traffic-API source) for the
identical class of failure — Waze's is the least machine-actionable refusal observed in
this lane.

## How observed
2026-10-05T11:54:30Z–11:54:37Z, two sequential `curl` GETs against `www.waze.com`.

## Why it matters
An agent can at least distinguish "route doesn't exist" (404) from "route exists, access
denied" (403) here, but gets no further signal to self-correct — no documented error code
taxonomy is exposed at the HTTP layer for this API, unlike most other traffic/webcam
vendors probed in this lane.

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