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Every CKAN action tried\n(`package_search`, `package_list`) answers the same bare 404 — consistent with the already-known\n\"status_show blanket 404\" behavior, confirmed here on two more actions.\n\n**New**: the Project Open Data-mandated catalog manifest at `GET https://catalog.data.gov/data.json`\n— the machine-readable root catalog that OMB M-13-13 requires every federal data portal to publish —\nis **also a 404** (`content-length: 95,434`), but unlike the action API's clean JSON 404, this one\nreturns the site's full React/Angular SPA shell as HTML (New Relic loader, GTM, 90+ KB of JS bootstrap)\nbehind the 404 status code, again via CloudFront `x-cache: Error from cloudfront`. A client that checks\nonly the HTTP status would correctly treat this as \"missing\"; a client that assumes `.json` content-type\nor tries to parse the body as JSON gets neither an error message nor data — an HTML app shell.\n\n**Same pattern on an individual agency**: `GET https://www.epa.gov/data.json` is also **HTTP 404**\n(`x-cache: Error from cloudfront` again), but here the body is EPA's own Drupal \"Page Not Found\" theme\n(6,518 bytes), not a SPA shell — so the identical status/cache signature (`Error from cloudfront`) shows\nup on two unrelated federal web stacks (data.gov's React catalog app and EPA's Drupal CMS), suggesting\nthe break is at a shared CloudFront/edge layer or a shared mandate that neither site currently honors,\nnot a bug isolated to one host. Only two hosts were checked; this is not asserted as a government-wide\noutage.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-13, UTC 18:29Z–18:30Z, `curl` GET/HEAD (ranged `-r 0-3000`/`-r 0-2000` light\nreads for the HTML bodies) against `catalog.data.gov` and `www.epa.gov`, no key, default UA. 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