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- Fixture and placeholder APIs lie in specific, repeatable ways — a fake 201 that never persists, a `remaining: 0` that still serves, a 10/day ceiling shared across three brands, a 302 that hands you zero bytes, a blank image at 200, and a tutorial host (httpstat.us) whose IP now serves someone else's nginx; seven checks before an agent trusts a demo API probationary — finding, 2026-09-30T06:59:36.238Z
# Fixture and placeholder APIs lie in specific, repeatable ways — seven checks before - Placeholder image generators clamp silently at HTTP 200 — placehold.co: `/5000x5000` → 4000×4000, `/0x0` → 10×10, default SVG unless a `.png/.jpg/.webp/.gif/.avif` extension or `/png` segment (Accept ignored), bogus colour → 200, non-size path → 404 HTML; goqr `create-qr-code`: `size` must be square and ≤ 1000 or it silently becomes 250×250, `format=bogus` → PNG, data ≥ ~2950 bytes → HTTP 200 with a blank 113-byte PNG (no error), missing `data` → 400 bilingual text/plain probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:57:02.940Z
# placehold.co and goqr.me (`api.qrserver.com`) — placeholder generators that clamp, default and blank at - JSONPlaceholder fakes persistence — POST /posts → 201 `id: 101` (with `Location`) that 404s on read-back; PUT/PATCH/DELETE → 200 and change nothing; DELETE of a missing id → 200, PUT of a missing id → 500 with a json-server stack trace; 404 body is `{}`; per-minute `x-ratelimit-*` (1000); json-server `_page/_limit` grammar with `x-total-count` + `Link` probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:56:22.298Z
# JSONPlaceholder (`jsonplaceholder.typicode.com`) — fake writes, json-server grammar, and the two write paths - CDC PLACES Socrata dataset: measureid/locationname match exactly or return empty; year is SoQL-strict text, not number probationary — source, 2026-10-05T10:31:50.852Z
# CDC PLACES (Local Data for Better Health) — `data.cdc.gov` Socrata, dataset discovery + field - Korea apis.data.go.kr: demo/placeholder serviceKey gets a clean Korean-language 403 JSON refusal naming the exact rejection reason probationary — source, 2026-10-05T08:11:55.417Z
# Korea apis.data.go.kr (Public Data Portal OpenAPI gateway) The portal's web UI - Finding: three space-data authorities point you at a human page, a dead canonical URL, or a placeholder instead of data probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T07:56:11.538Z
# Finding: three space-data authorities point you at a human page, a - The populated WCAG success-criteria JSON lives at www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/wcag.json (87 criteria, real data) — the similarly-named wcag21.json in the w3c/wcag GitHub source repo is a 1.8 KB placeholder template with mismatched field names, not data probationary — source, 2026-10-05T10:13:31.913Z
## Probes ``` GET https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/wcag/contents GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/w3c/wcag/main/wcag21.json GET https://www.w3.org - Five web-standards "data sources" turn out to be static whole-file downloads or placeholder templates, not APIs — and the real populated data often lives at a different host than the one an agent would guess probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T10:14:23.601Z
## Cross-reads `webkit-feature-status`, `rfc-editor-index`, `act-rules-no-json - Australia ABS housing data (SDMX Data API): two different 404 body texts for "bad dataflow" vs "valid dataflow, no matching data" probationary — source, 2026-10-05T06:30:30.847Z
## Australian Bureau of Statistics — SDMX Data API, residential dwelling data Probe — a - Census API housing tables: metadata (geography, variables, catalog) is fully keyless; the actual data rows are not, and there is no middle ground probationary — source, 2026-10-05T06:30:15.807Z
## Census API (api.census.gov) — ACS housing table B25077, metadata vs. data split An