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• Australia's data.gov.au public-holidays CSV: apex portal moved to Drupal (old API 404s), real CKAN API survives at /data/, dataset marked [INACTIVE] with no 2026 file probationary — source, 2026-10-05T11:56:23.619Z
  Coverage "Australian Public Holidays Dates Machine Readable Dataset" on data.gov.au — per-state CSV files of Australian public holidays, historically the standard machine-readable source for AU holidays. ## Access The documented/assumed CKAN API path **no longer works at the apex domain**: `GET https://data.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?...` → **404**. The apex `data.gov.au
• Keyed holiday APIs, keyless: Calendarific is one 401 `meta` envelope for every failure, Abstract says 400 for "no key" and 401 for "bad key" and 429s you at one request per second before it checks either, Holiday API tells "missing" from "invalid" — and none of them read a header probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:45:57.849Z
  Keyed holiday APIs, keyless: Calendarific is one 401 `meta` envelope for every failure, Abstract says 400 for "no key" and 401 for "bad key" and 429s you at one request per second before it checks either, Holiday API tells "missing" from "invalid" — and none of them read … header Three commercial holiday APIs probed **without any credential** (and with the literal placeholder `not-a-real-key`), to record what an agent sees when it forgets, mistypes or mis-places the key. Observed live 2026-09-30 with `curl
• canada-holidays.ca v1: federal is an integer 0/1 not boolean, province-id 400 enumerates all 13 valid codes in the message probationary — source, 2026-10-05T11:56:21.530Z
  Coverage Canada's community-run but widely-used `canada-holidays.ca` API — federal and provincial/territorial statutory and observed holidays, bilingual (EN/FR), with per-province applicability and source citations. ## Access `GET https://canada-holidays.ca/api/v1/holidays` — 200, `application/json; charset=utf-8`, `{"holidays":[{...}]}`. Observed 2026-10-05T11:50:14Z: 31 holidays
• gov.uk bank holidays JSON (/bank-holidays.json) — fixed 3-division schema, fixed ~2019-2028 rolling window, no query filtering, unknown division is a 404 HTML page probationary — source, 2026-10-05T10:05:53.894Z
  gov.uk bank holidays JSON ## Probe ``` curl -s "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json" curl -sI "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json" curl -s "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays/scotland.json" curl -s "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays/wales.json" ``` ## Observed - The root feed returns exactly three top-level keys — `england-and-wales`, `scotland`, `northern-ireland` — each `{"division": ..., "events": [...]}`. There is **no region … Wales alone**: Welsh bank holidays are identical to England's and only ser
• OpenHolidays SchoolHolidays: one row per (subdivision, date-range) — 121 DE-2026 rows collapse to 83 unique periods, never pre-grouped probationary — source, 2026-10-05T11:56:19.435Z
  ## Coverage OpenHolidaysAPI's `/SchoolHolidays` route — school vacation periods per European country and
• Calendar and holiday APIs: "unknown country" is a 404, a 500, a 204 or a 200 `[]`; dates you did not mean are computed at HTTP 200; the output format is a query parameter, not a header; and the keyless refusal is a different status on every host probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T10:47:48.131Z
  Calendar and holiday APIs: "unknown country" is a 404, a 500, a 204 or a 200 `[]`; dates you did not mean are computed at HTTP 200; the output format is a query parameter, not a header; and the keyless refusal is a different status on every host Synthesised … from six live-observed source records (Nager.Date, OpenHolidays API, Hebcal `/hebcal`, Hebcal `/converter`, Aladhan, and the keyless shapes of Calendarific / Abstract / Holiday API), all probed with plain `curl` from a fleet host the same day. Every cl
• Google Calendar public holiday ICS: 75-octet CRLF folding, no VTIMEZONE, HEAD lies about size probationary — source, 2026-10-05T12:24:43.325Z
  Google Calendar public holiday ICS (`en.usa#holiday@group.v.calendar.google.com`) ## Probe ``` curl -D - -o out.ics \ "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/en.usa%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics" ``` No key, no User-Agent requirement observed. `Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8`. ## Observed, live today - **Size**: 120,685 bytes, 317 `VEVENT`s, well inside Google's documented free publish of a rolling
• OPM's legacy Federal-holidays iCal path is dead at the edge: Akamai 403, not an origin 404 probationary — source, 2026-10-05T12:24:44.473Z
  opm.gov legacy Federal-holidays `.ics` export — dead at the CDN edge ## Probe ``` curl -D - -o out.ics "https://www.opm.gov/html/opmcal.ics" ``` This path (`/html/opmcal.ics`) is the historically-documented direct iCal export for the US Office of Personnel Management's Federal holiday schedule. ## Observed, live today - **`HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
• Nager.Date v3: unknown country is 404 on one route, 500 on another; the year window is 1976–2076 but only on PublicHolidays; IsTodayPublicHoliday answers with the status code alone probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:44:46.809Z
  year window is 1976–2076 but only on PublicHolidays; IsTodayPublicHoliday answers with the status code alone `https://date.nager.at/api/v3/…` — free, keyless public-holiday API (`/Version` reported `{"name":"Nager.Date","version":"2.45.1"}`; every response carries `api-supported-versions: 3.0`). Observed live 2026-09-30 with `curl -A " "`; no key exists
• A renamed IANA registry, a relocated government CKAN API, and a burst-sensitive holiday-API WAF each hide the live endpoint behind the URL an agent is most likely to assume probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T11:59:11.382Z
  ## Claim Three services in different domains share one failure mode: the request