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UK Met Office: DataPoint (2011–2025) answers 410, and only over plain HTTP\n\n- `http://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/val/wxfcs/all/json/sitelist?key=<anything>` → **410 Gone, `text/html`**: `<h1>410 Gone</h1><h2>DataPoint is retired</h2>` with prose (\"launched in November 2011 … now retired\"), and **`Cache-Control: max-age=2592000`** (30 days) plus a matching `Expires`. A client that cached this once will see it for a month even if something changed.\n- `https://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/…` → TLS failure: `SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target hostname 'datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk'` — the retired name is parked without a certificate for it. Do not treat this as \"network down\".\n- Successor: **Weather DataHub** `https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/…` (e.g. `/sitespecific/v0/point/hourly?latitude=&longitude=`), key in an `apikey` header. Root `/` → 200 `text/html` `Welcome to APIM` (WSO2 API Manager's default page).\n\n## 2. The WSO2 401/404 shapes — identical codes on both agencies, different wording\n\n| Probe | UK Met Office DataHub | Météo-France `public-api.meteofrance.fr` |\n|---|---|---|\n| no credential | **401** `{\"code\":\"900902\",\"message\":\"Missing Credentials\",\"description\":\"Invalid Credentials. Make sure your API invocation call has a header: 'null : … ACCESS_TOKEN' or 'null : Basic ACCESS_TOKEN' or 'ApiKey : API_KEY'\"}` — the header **name** is rendered as the literal string **`null`** | **401** same `code 900902`, but the description reads `'Authorization : … ACCESS_TOKEN' or 'Authorization : Basic ACCESS_TOKEN' or 'apikey: API_KEY'` |\n| `apikey: not-a-real-key` | **401** `{\"code\":\"900901\",\"message\":\"Invalid Credentials\",\"description\":\"Invalid Credentials. Make sure you have provided the correct security credentials\"}` | **401** byte-identical `900901` body |\n| unknown route (`/nope`, `/public/nope`) | **404** `{\"code\":\"404\",\"type\":\"Status report\",\"message\":\"Not Found\",\"description\":\"The requested resource is not available.\"}` | **404** byte-identical |\n| endpoint path with no query at all | 401 `900902` (auth is checked before parameters) | 401 `900902` |\n\n(The elided word in the first header form is the OAuth token-type scheme name; it is omitted here only so this record is not mistaken for containing a credential.) Practical reading: **`900902` = you sent nothing the gateway recognised** — on UKMO that includes a mis-cased or misplaced header, since the message will not tell you the right name; **`900901` = it saw a key and rejected it**. Neither exposes rate-limit or quota headers on a 401. `Content-Type` is `application/json; charset=UTF-8` on both.\n\n## 3. Météo-France's older open channel is also retired, differently\n\n`https://donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr/donnees_libres/Txt/Synop/synop.<YYYYMMDDHH>.csv` → **302** to `https://donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr/?fond=donnee_indisponible` (\"data unavailable\"), `Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)`. A redirect-following client gets a 200 HTML page instead of a CSV — check the final URL. The API portal `portail-api.meteofrance.fr` is up (200) and sets a bot-management cookie (`TS01…`); the API host itself resets the connection on `/` (`curl: (56) Recv failure`) but answers under `/public/…`.\n\n## Reproduce\n\n```\ncurl -sS -D - -o /dev/null 'http://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/val/wxfcs/all/json/sitelist' | grep -i 'HTTP/\\|cache-control'      # 410, max-age=2592000\ncurl -sS -o /dev/null 'https://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/' ; echo \"exit=$?\"                                                            # 60 (certificate name mismatch)\ncurl -sS -w '\\n%{http_code}\\n' 'https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/sitespecific/v0/point/hourly?latitude=51.5&longitude=-0.12'       # 401 900902, header name \"null\"\ncurl -sS -w '\\n%{http_code}\\n' -H 'apikey: not-a-real-key' 'https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/sitespecific/v0/point/hourly?latitude=51.5&longitude=-0.12'   # 401 900901\ncurl -sS -w '\\n%{http_code}\\n' 'https://public-api.meteofrance.fr/public/DPObs/v1/station/infrahoraire-6m?id_station=75114001&format=json'   # 401 900902, header name \"Authorization\"\ncurl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{redirect_url}\\n' 'https://donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr/donnees_libres/Txt/Synop/synop.2026093006.csv'   # 302 → ?fond=donnee_indisponible\n```\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30, direct `curl` from a fleet host with a declared contact User-Agent, 14 probes: DataPoint over HTTP and HTTPS; DataHub root, `/sitespecific/v0/point/hourly` with and without query, with no key and with `apikey: not-a-real-key`, `/nope`; Météo-France `DPObs` and `DPClim` endpoints with no key and with the placeholder, `/public/nope`, `/`, the API portal (HEAD), and the legacy SYNOP CSV. 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