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Format is selected by **file extension**, never by `Accept`. Observed on the HTTP Status Code registry and the Media Types registry.\n\n## What the extensions do (`http-status-codes`)\n\n| URL | Result |\n|---|---|\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xml` | 200 `application/xml`, 13 823 B, `Last-Modified: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:49:12 GMT`, **no ETag** |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.txt` | 200 `text/plain;charset=UTF-8;` — a rendered page (nav links, \"Last Updated\" line) not a machine table |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.csv` | **404** `text/html` |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes-1.csv` | **200** `text/csv; charset=UTF-8; header=present` — `Value,Description,Reference` / `100,Continue,\"[RFC9110, Section 15.2.1]\"` |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xhtml` | **302** → `/assignments/http-status-codes` |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/` (trailing slash) | **302** → `/assignments/http-status-codes` |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes` | 200 `text/html; charset=UTF-8` — the XHTML 1.0 Strict page (declared XHTML, served as `text/html`) |\n| `/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes` (no extension, doubled name) | 404 |\n\n**Trap 1 — the CSV is named by the inner `<registry id>`, not the URL slug.** The XML wraps sub-registries: `http-status-codes.xml` contains `<registry id=\"http-status-codes-1\">`, and *that* id is the CSV name. For Media Types, `media-types.xml` (610 621 B) contains `<registry id=\"application\">`, `\"audio\"`, `\"example\"`, `\"font\"`, `\"haptics\"`, `\"image\"`, `\"message\"`, `\"model\"`, `\"multipart\"`, `\"text\"`, `\"video\"` — so `media-types.csv` is **404** and `application.csv` is **200** (`Name,Template,Reference` / `1d-interleaved-parityfec,application/1d-interleaved-parityfec,[RFC 6015]`). Rule: fetch the XML once, read the `<registry id=\"…\">` values, then fetch `<id>.csv`. There is no whole-registry CSV.\n\n**Trap 2 — `.txt` sends `Content-Encoding: UTF-8`.** That header names a *transfer coding*; `UTF-8` is not one. `curl --compressed` fails hard: `curl: (61) Unrecognized content encoding type. libcurl understands deflate, gzip, br, zstd content encodings.` (exit 61, zero bytes delivered), while the same flag on the `.xml` (which has no such header) works (exit 0, gzip'd to 2 029 B). Python `urllib` ignores the header and reads the body fine (8 637 B). Any client that honours `Content-Encoding` strictly must strip `--compressed` / `Accept-Encoding` for IANA `.txt` URLs, or take the XML/CSV instead. Seen on both `http-status-codes.txt` and `media-types.txt` (549 998 B).\n\n**Trap 3 — two different \"last modified\"s.** HTTP `Last-Modified` is the nightly regeneration time (`Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:49:12 GMT` on the status-code files; `00:48:42`–`00:48:46` on media-types) and moves even when content does not. The registry's own change date is inside the XML: `<updated>2025-09-15</updated>` for status codes, `<updated>2026-09-24</updated>` for media types (the `.txt` page prints it as \"Last Updated\"). Use `<updated>` to decide if anything changed; use `Last-Modified` only for conditional GET.\n\n## Caching\nNo `ETag` on any format. `If-Modified-Since: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:49:12 GMT` → **304** on both `.xml` and `.txt`. `Cache-Control: public, s-maxage=1800, max-age=3600` everywhere. `HEAD` on `.xml` returns the same `Content-Length` (13 823) and `Last-Modified` as GET. `Accept: application/json` on the `.xhtml` URL changes nothing (still 302 to the HTML page).\n\n## Probe\n```\nUA='nh-batch10-std/1.0'\nfor ext in xml csv txt xhtml; do curl -sSI -A \"$UA\" https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.$ext | head -1; done\ncurl -sS -A \"$UA\" https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes-1.csv | head -2\ngrep -o '<registry id=\"[^\"]*\"' <(curl -sS https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xml) | head -12\ncurl -sS --compressed -A \"$UA\" -o /dev/null https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.txt; echo exit=$?   # 61\ncurl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\\n' -H 'If-Modified-Since: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:49:12 GMT' https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xml   # 304\n```\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30, direct anonymous HTTPS (curl 8.x, custom User-Agent) against `www.iana.org` from a residential connection; every status, header and byte count above is from those responses. 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