JSON Schema meta-schemas and the SchemaStore catalog: the `$id`/`$schema` URI is an identifier not the serving URL (draft-07 is `http://…#`, served only over https), an unknown draft is an HTML 404 labeled `application/schema+json`, and `json.schemastore.org/catalog.json` redirects into a 404

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# JSON Schema meta-schemas (`json-schema.org`) and the SchemaStore catalog (`schemastore.org`)

Two reference sources every JSON-Schema toolchain resolves against. Both share the same trap: **the URI written in `$schema`/`$id` is an identifier, and the bytes live somewhere else.**

## json-schema.org meta-schemas
| URL | Status / type | `$id` in body |
|---|---|---|
| `https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema` | 200 `application/schema+json`, 2 452 B | `https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema` |
| `https://json-schema.org/draft/2019-09/schema` | 200 `application/schema+json` | `https://json-schema.org/draft/2019-09/schema` |
| `https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema` | 200 `application/schema+json`, 4 979 B | **`http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#`** (http, trailing `#`) |
| `https://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema` | 200 `application/schema+json` | no `$id`; **`id: "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#"`** |
| `http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema` (the canonical scheme) | **301** → https | — |
| `http://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema` | 301 → https | — |
| `https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema.json` | 404 `text/html` | — |
| `https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema/` | 404 `text/html` | — |
| `https://json-schema.org/draft/2030-01/schema` (nonexistent) | **404 with `content-type: application/schema+json`** — body is the site's Next.js HTML 404 page (`<!DOCTYPE html>…`) | — |

So: a resolver keyed on the exact `$schema` string must map `http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#` → strip fragment, upgrade scheme → fetch; naive fetching of the literal `$schema` value costs a 301 on every draft ≤ 7. And **check the status before parsing**: an unknown draft returns non-JSON under a JSON media type.
2020-12 body: `$vocabulary` lists seven vocab URIs, `$dynamicAnchor: "meta"`, and `allOf` uses **relative** refs (`{"$ref":"meta/core"}`, …) resolved against `$id`; `https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/meta/core` → 200, its own `$id` absolute. `Accept: text/html` is ignored (still `application/schema+json`). `Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable`; strong `ETag` (`"161ce3f5…"`), `If-None-Match` → **304**.

## SchemaStore catalog (`https://www.schemastore.org/api/json/catalog.json`)
- The catalog lives **only** at `www.schemastore.org/api/json/catalog.json` (200, 533 855 B, `ETag "6abc4f77-8255f"`, `Last-Modified: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:53:27 GMT`, `If-None-Match` → 304, `Cache-Control: max-age=600`). The historical `https://json.schemastore.org/catalog.json` → **301 → `https://www.schemastore.org/catalog.json` → 404 `text/html`** (a dead redirect chain); the apex `schemastore.org/...` → 301 → www.
- Shape: `{"$schema":"https://www.schemastore.org/schema-catalog.json","version":1,"schemas":[…]}` — **1 497** entries. `name`, `description`, `url` on all; **`fileMatch` on 1 395 (absent on 102** — e.g. "Argo CD", "Argo Workflows": those schemas cannot be auto-associated by filename); `versions` (`{"1.7.0": "<url>"}` map) on 171. `fileMatch` globs are mixed style: 1 711 plain names (`.ameba.yml`), 474 `*.ext`, 701 `**/`-prefixed; a matcher needs full glob semantics, not suffix matching. `url` hosts: `www.schemastore.org` 659, `raw.githubusercontent.com` 564, `github.com` 32, `gitlab.com` 10 … — more than half of the catalog is third-party-hosted.
- Individual schemas: `https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig.json` → **301** → `https://www.schemastore.org/tsconfig.json` (200 `application/json`), whose body says `"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"` and **`"$id": "https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig"`** — no `.json`, on the redirecting host. Unknown name → 404 `text/html`. The catalog's own meta-schema `www.schemastore.org/schema-catalog.json` → 200, 1 884 B.

## Probe
```
for u in https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema https://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema; do curl -sS $u | python3 -c "import json,sys;d=json.load(sys.stdin);print(d.get('\$id'),d.get('id'))"; done
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{redirect_url}\n' 'http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema'      # 301
curl -sS -D - -o body https://json-schema.org/draft/2030-01/schema | grep -iE '^HTTP|content-type'; head -c 15 body   # 404 application/schema+json <!DOCTYPE html>
curl -sSL -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective} %{http_code}\n' https://json.schemastore.org/catalog.json   # …/www.schemastore.org/catalog.json 404
curl -sS https://www.schemastore.org/api/json/catalog.json | python3 -c "import json,sys;s=json.load(sys.stdin)['schemas'];print(len(s),sum('fileMatch' in x for x in s))"   # 1497 1395
```

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct anonymous HTTPS (curl, custom User-Agent) against `json-schema.org`, `json.schemastore.org`, `www.schemastore.org`, `schemastore.org`; catalog statistics computed locally with Python `json`. Catalog counts are as of the 2026-09-29 build and will drift.

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