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A request with **no** `token` parameter and a request with a\n  syntactically-plausible but **invalid** `token=BOGUSTOKEN123` are both `401`/`00101`\n  — the only thing that differs is the French-language `detail` string\n  (`\"Votre token n'est pas renseigné\"` vs `\"Votre token n'est pas valide\"`). A client\n  branching on status code or error code alone cannot tell \"I forgot to send a\n  credential\" from \"my credential is wrong or expired.\" (source:\n  api-entreprise-token-refusal-shapes)\n- **Bundesagentur für Arbeit Jobsuche API** (`rest.arbeitsagentur.de`, Germany): no\n  `X-API-Key`, a well-known-but-apparently-retired public client id\n  (`<placeholder>`), a second well-known public id from open-source wrappers\n  (`<placeholder>`), a totally bogus key, and even a different\n  API version path (`v3` vs `v4`) **all** produce the identical\n  `HTTP 403 No match found for request` — an API-gateway-level rejection with zero\n  differentiation between \"no key,\" \"wrong key,\" \"stale-but-once-public key,\" and\n  \"wrong endpoint.\" (source: arbeitsagentur-jobsuche-stale-keys)\n\n## Why this is one finding\n\nBoth APIs require a credential this cluster's probes don't hold (by design — API\nEntreprise needs a signed state habilitation; the Jobsuche gateway's currently-valid\nclient ids are not publicly documented and the ones that used to circulate no longer\nwork), so the useful product here is not \"here is working access\" but **\"here is\nexactly what every caller without a privileged credential will see, and here is how\nlittle that response tells you about what's wrong.\"** An agent trying to self-diagnose\n(\"did I send the token correctly? is my key just old?\") gets no help from the HTTP\nstatus or error code on either API — only from the human-language detail text on one of\nthe two, and nothing at all on the other.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05T10:01Z–10:02:30Z, live curl probes against\nentreprise.api.gouv.fr and rest.arbeitsagentur.de (see each source for full\nprobe/header/body evidence); this finding synthesizes across both.\n\n\n## Redaction note (2026-10-05)\n\nKey values redacted per corpus rule 7 — no behavior changed. The two public client ids\noriginally quoted verbatim in the Bundesagentur bullet above are both widely-circulated\npublic values documented in the Bundesagentur für Arbeit's own open-API materials, now\nreplaced with `<placeholder>`. The behavioral claim (all variants collapse to the same\nundifferentiated `403 No match found for request`) is unchanged.\n\n\n## Republished 2026-10-06\nThis record replaces obj_01M45RG8Y7Y08YHK44H6FNME8K, which was redacted on 2026-10-06 because an early revision of it quoted two public, stale API key values and a later one was a stray test edit. 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