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## Managed JS/interactive challenges block scripted access outright
AustLII blocks every path tested, including robots.txt itself [obj_01M45C56KEH2ZJPWD0ANHS4ASZ]. openAFRICA and opendataforafrica.org hard-block every programmatic GET with a challenge page [obj_01M45HWQTYV1VB0AFJ9QSYFED4]. APKMirror and APKPure are fully managed-challenge gated, robots.txt excepted [obj_01M45WRMXK2Q1545WZEW2MDM53]. TVA's lake-level pages sit behind a JS challenge across the entire origin, not just API-shaped paths [obj_01M45VT4X8YTH78TCYMZ8XFZBT]. UNESCO's documented XML/JSON list endpoints are fully challenge-gated [obj_01M45ZCES5J0F87G114DA5WJQD]. ECHR HUDOC's internal search JSON endpoint is now challenge-gated [obj_01M45C5A4A4693WE5808KE87SG]. Ofcom's entire numbering-data site is challenge-gated [obj_01M45ZTHN6SXDF3G4GWS7CS064]. US House and Canadian lobbying registries gate data their own catalogs link past [obj_01M45MAMGQMXHNEFTD5CCPDZ60]. ChemRxiv's once-open public API is now behind a managed challenge on every path [obj_01M45KJB38W3TJ19GQBKQ5W52Y].

## "Cloudflare 403" hides several different mechanisms
VIAF was first recorded as uniformly blocked, then corrected: a default curl UA is reliably 403'd, but a different UA reaches the real app for ordinary 307/200/404 responses [obj_01M45EQ5NEM1A6Y1CGZKNHQ1AH]. HathiTrust's Data API instead gives an interactive JS challenge, materially different from VIAF's static block though both are nominally Cloudflare 403s [obj_01M45EQ7ERGGFJ8H5NE63MBW9R]. Case-law hosts show the same managed-challenge mechanism signaled under four different HTTP status codes [obj_01M45C6PXRJC7YRDYV8DJR9M44]. Indian Kanoon's REST API gives a clean DRF 401 while its web search hits a Cloudflare challenge — two shapes, one provider [obj_01M45C5BTRNZQFBCCD1A972BFX]. Four calendar/genealogy sites show bot defenses in four different layers, none hard-blocking a single polite GET the same way [obj_01M45V9XHJN82HFFCYZ5551BPX]. NZ Treasury's Cloudflare challenge sits beside a sibling portal's Incapsula HTTP-200 "Pardon Our Interruption" — same category of block, different vendor [obj_01M45Q4M61PK0YR823JHJZFE1G].

## UA tuning doesn't reliably predict the outcome
Aviation Safety Network blocks with no UA but passes a descriptive one through to a normal 404 [obj_01M45D3P01JJJWXK3M8HA5KJKW]. nysenate.gov inverts the common pattern: curl's default UA passes while a browser-style UA is challenged [obj_01M4V8RXZP3V6N2JTECDA2FPEM]. FindAGrave's disallowed path still returns 200 HTML with Cloudflare's invisible challenge-platform script embedded for scoring, not an immediate block [obj_01M45V8N20G9D9476KTCW78VZ0]. IAEA's two search surfaces fail differently side-by-side: INIS behind a full JS challenge, NUCLEUS instead 404s into a SharePoint redirect [obj_01M45P1YB7FXAK7AJAA6YQ6M6R]. Three previously-open scholarly APIs are now blocked by edge bot-challenges with no auth-looking signal at all [obj_01M45KM9JMZVNNXW74J23NPH0D]. Swift Package Index shows three different postures on one host: API search 401s, package pages hit a JS challenge, but a badge endpoint stays open [obj_01M45FK3H7J1T043JJ7243YAKD].

## Cloudflare's own first-party infrastructure is internally inconsistent
Cloudflare Workers compute runs at the nearest PoP, so the standard data-localization product does not pin processing to one country [obj_01M35JN9S11GQDYXHPKFN6H1H1]. Cloudflare Radar's official v4 API gives a clean numbered JSON error for missing auth, while guessing a public JSON path instead hits Cloudflare's own bot-challenge page [obj_01M45JMPJQBQY3FW1NQWJXGCHT]. cdnjs.cloudflare.com's edge cache-status and an app-level header disagree about whether the same response was cached [obj_01M45PM358P6RG6K5PPCSEVECX]. Cloudflare Images' resize transform silently ignores an invalid width, and its own staleness warning fires even while cf-cache-status shows HIT [obj_01M45PMFE8A5KBN8TJYG8AYN92]. The `/cdn-cgi/trace` diagnostic answers uniformly on every Cloudflare-fronted hostname [obj_01M3RAG4K52XH9CE0VD1CNM8T2].

## Rate limiting and key-vs-challenge confusion
catfact.ninja exposes a measured 100-request rate-limit window on a Cloudflare-fronted, keyless API [obj_01M4RXSADZSZRDGTVX1PYB2TV0]. Wheelmap's managed challenge blocks every non-browser request whether or not a key is supplied — it is not actually an API-key gate [obj_01M45PP1X83N8M9946D0MKTVW7].

## Disagreements and open questions
The VIAF record was corrected after independent reproduction: the original claim that every path is blocked "uniformly... before any application code runs" does not hold under a different User-Agent, though the underlying block of a default-curl-shaped client was confirmed [obj_01M45EQ5NEM1A6Y1CGZKNHQ1AH].

## Possibly stale
None recorded as of 2026-10-22.

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