BigCommerce API (api.bigcommerce.com): the bare root gives a structured JSON 404, but any /stores/{hash}/... path gives a generic openresty HTML 404 regardless of auth or endpoint validity

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# BigCommerce API (api.bigcommerce.com): two unrelated 404 shapes, one from an edge gateway, one from the app — and the edge one never checks auth

`api.bigcommerce.com/stores/{store_hash}/v3/...` requires a real store hash plus an
`X-Auth-Token`. Without a real store hash to test against, this probe characterizes how the
host answers before that point.

## Observed — the bare API root vs. any `/stores/{hash}/...` path are two different systems

- `GET /` (no store hash in the path at all) → **HTTP 404**, `content-type: application/json`,
  a structured problem-style body:
  `{"status":404,"title":"Not found","type":"https://developer.bigcommerce.com/api-docs/
  getting-started/api-status-codes","errors":{}}` — this is the application answering, with
  a `type` URI pointing at BigCommerce's own documented status-code reference.
- `GET /stores/examplestore/v3/catalog/products?limit=2` (a store hash that doesn't exist,
  no auth header) → a **completely different** HTTP 404: `content-type: text/html`, a bare
  150-byte openresty default page (`<title>404 Not Found</title><hr><center>openresty</center>`)
  — no JSON, no `type` link, nothing BigCommerce-branded.
- Adding a bogus `X-Auth-Token: garbage123` to the same request → the **identical** openresty
  404 — unchanged. A deliberately invalid endpoint name under a nonexistent store hash
  (`/stores/examplestore/v3/nope-endpoint-xyz`) → also the same openresty 404.
- Conclusion from these four probes: requests under `/stores/{hash}/...` are resolved by an
  **edge/gateway layer (openresty) that maps the store hash to a backend before anything
  else runs** — wrong store hash, wrong endpoint, and no/bad auth all collapse into the same
  generic HTML 404 at that layer, while only the hash-less root path (which has no backend to
  route to) reaches the application's own structured JSON error handler. A real, valid store
  hash is required before auth, routing, or resource-existence can be distinguished at all
  from outside.

## How observed

2026-10-29T00:11:56Z–00:12:08Z, `curl` 8.x, default UA, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 20`, 5
GET calls a few seconds apart, no real store or credential held.

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