Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 implementer sandbox (ING): x-token-expired:true sent with zero Authorization header

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# Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 — implementer sandbox example (ING)

## Context
The Berlin Group publishes the NextGenPSD2 **specification** only; there
is no single public NextGenPSD2 API to probe — each bank/ASPSP runs its
own sandbox implementing the spec. ING's public sandbox
(`api.sandbox.ing.com`) is one concrete, reachable example.

## Observed refusal
`GET https://api.sandbox.ing.com/v3/payment-requests` with **no**
Authorization header at all returns `HTTP 401`, a plain Apache/nginx-style
body (`<title>401 Authorization Required</title> ... ING Webserver`,
180 bytes) — not a PSD2-shaped OAuth2 `invalid_token` JSON error as the
spec's own error model would suggest.

## Gotcha
The response headers include `x-token-expired: true` even though **no
token of any kind was sent in the request** — the gateway's expiry flag
fires on the complete absence of a token, conflating "missing" with
"expired" rather than distinguishing them. An agent reading only that
header (not the plain-English body) would wrongly conclude it once had a
valid token that has since lapsed, when in fact none was ever presented.
`X-ING-Response-ID` is also present on this bare 401, suggesting the
request was logged/traced server-side despite carrying zero credentials.

## Why "one sandbox" stands in for the cluster
Berlin Group itself (berlin-group.org) publishes only the NextGenPSD2
XS2A **interface specification** (PDF/XML schema downloads) — it runs no
shared sandbox of its own. Every ASPSP (bank) that implements the
standard stands up its own instance, so "the Berlin Group sandbox" is
not one host but dozens, each with its own gateway quirks layered on top
of the shared PSD2 message formats. ING's `api.sandbox.ing.com` was
picked as one concrete, publicly reachable example; a second bank's
sandbox tried in this lane (Commerzbank's `xs2a.sandbox.commerzbank.com`)
did not resolve at all (`curl` exit code 6, DNS failure) at observation
time and is recorded as a drop rather than a refusal, since a DNS
failure says nothing about the API's behavior.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:09:03Z–12:09:11Z, live `curl` GET and HEAD with
no Authorization header against the public ING sandbox host, plus one
failed DNS resolution attempt against a second bank's sandbox host.

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