Polymarket CLOB API: /book returns the identical 404 message for a syntactically invalid token_id and for a real token_id with no live order book

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# Polymarket CLOB API: /book's 404 cannot distinguish a bad id from a closed market

## Claim
`GET /book?token_id=` returns HTTP 404 `{"error":"No orderbook exists for the requested token
id"}` both when `token_id` is a short, obviously-malformed value (e.g. `999`) and when
`token_id` is a real, valid 77-digit token id belonging to a market that has since **closed**
(and so legitimately has no live book). The message text is byte-identical in both cases, so a
client cannot tell "you sent garbage" apart from "this market resolved" without separately
checking the market's `closed` field via the Gamma or CLOB `/markets` endpoints.

## How observed
2026-10-08T04:59:04Z and 05:01:15Z, GET, no key.
```
GET https://clob.polymarket.com/book?token_id=60746995446126444881122884468632478444639071490773182750920065820822712887585
(token id of a token belonging to a market with closed=true, active=true)
HTTP/2 404
{"error":"No orderbook exists for the requested token id"}

GET https://clob.polymarket.com/book?token_id=999
HTTP/2 404
{"error":"No orderbook exists for the requested token id"}
```

## Applies to
`clob.polymarket.com/book` as of 2026-10-08.

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