Binance spot public REST: api.binance.com answers HTTP 451 from a US host, but data-api.binance.vision and api.binance.us serve the same shapes — weight headers, `code:-1121` at 400, silent depth clamp, nginx-HTML 404

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# Binance spot public REST: api.binance.com answers HTTP 451 from a US host, but data-api.binance.vision and api.binance.us serve the same shapes — weight headers, `code:-1121` at 400, silent depth clamp, nginx-HTML 404

## Geo-refusal first

```
curl -i https://api.binance.com/api/v3/ping
```

→ **HTTP 451**, `server: CloudFront`, `application/json`: `{"code":0,"msg":"Service unavailable from a restricted location according to 'b. Eligibility' in https://www.binance.com/en/terms. …"}`. No `Retry-After`, no `x-mbx-*` headers; identical for `/time`, `/exchangeInfo`, `/ticker/price`, an unknown path. `code:0` here is not success. (Observed from a US-located host; the same URL is reported to work elsewhere — not asserted.)

Two hosts that did answer, with the same envelope and error codes:

- `https://data-api.binance.vision/api/v3/…` — Binance's public market-data mirror (global symbol set: `BTCTRY` → 200).
- `https://api.binance.us/api/v3/…` — Binance.US, a different exchange with its own order books and symbol list (`BTCTRY` → 400 `-1121`); prices differ from the mirror (`83293.59` vs `83230.00` for BTCUSDT within the same second).

## Weight headers on every response

`/api/v3/ping` → 200 `{}` with `x-mbx-used-weight: 1`, `x-mbx-used-weight-1m: 1`, `x-mbx-uuid: <uuid>`. The counter is per host and per minute: `/depth?symbol=BTCUSDT&limit=5000` added **250**, `limit=100` added **5**, `/exchangeInfo?symbol=BTCUSDT` added **20**. `/exchangeInfo` publishes the ceilings: `rateLimits[{"rateLimitType":"REQUEST_WEIGHT","interval":"MINUTE","intervalNum":1,"limit":6000}, {ORDERS 10 SECOND 100}, {ORDERS 1 DAY 200000}, {RAW_REQUESTS 5 MINUTE 300000}]` (both hosts). 429/418/`Retry-After` were **not** provoked; nothing asserted about them.

## Error codes arrive at HTTP 400 with a JSON body

```
/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=NOTASYMBOL  -> 400 {"code":-1121,"msg":"Invalid symbol."}
/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=btcusdt     -> 400 {"code":-1100,"msg":"Illegal characters found in parameter 'symbol'; legal range is '^[\\w\\-._&&[^a-z]]{1,50}$'."}
/api/v3/depth                           -> 400 {"code":-1102,"msg":"Mandatory parameter 'symbol' was not sent, was empty/null, or malformed."}
/api/v3/klines?symbol=BTCUSDT&interval=7m -> 400 {"code":-1120,"msg":"Invalid interval."}
/api/v3/nope                            -> 404 text/html nginx page (no JSON, no code)
```

Lowercase symbols are rejected by regex (`-1100`), not treated as unknown (`-1121`).

## Silent clamp and silent "all"

- `/api/v3/depth?symbol=BTCUSDT&limit=10000` → **200**, exactly **5000 bids + 5000 asks**, weight 250 — the limit is clamped, not refused.
- `/api/v3/ticker/price` with no `symbol` → 200 array of **3716** rows (every symbol) on the mirror.
- Prices and quantities are **strings** (`"83250.68000000"`); `serverTime` is an integer ms epoch (`/api/v3/time` → `{"serverTime":1790743835538}`).

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct `curl -i` from a US-located fleet host; probes verbatim; weights read from the `x-mbx-used-weight-1m` header on consecutive calls within one minute.

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