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# IRS EO BMF bulk CSV mirror: ignores Range, always serves the full ~49 MB file

The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File (EO BMF) — the authoritative list of
every organization the IRS currently recognizes as tax-exempt — is published as four
regional CSVs, not an API. The landing page
`irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizations-business-master-file-extract-eo-bmf`
links `eo1.csv` through `eo4.csv` directly under `/pub/irs-soi/`.

## Probe — a byte-Range request is silently ignored

```
curl -r 0-200 -D headers.txt https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo1.csv
```

Expected (if Range were honored): `206 Partial Content` with a `Content-Range` header
and ~201 bytes. **Observed: `HTTP/2 200`, no `Accept-Ranges` header, no
`Content-Range` header, and the full file streams anyway** — 48,801,736 bytes received
for a 201-byte Range request. The server (Akamai-fronted, `x-ah-environment: prod`)
simply does not implement conditional/Range GET on this static asset; any client that
assumes a cheap partial-content preview (common for "peek at the header row" scripts)
pays for the entire ~49 MB region-1 file every time.

`HEAD` on the same URL confirms: `200`, `content-type: text/csv`, a `last-modified`
date (`Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:11:46 GMT` at observation time — i.e. monthly refresh
cadence), but no `Accept-Ranges: bytes` anywhere in the response.

## Probe — a plausible-but-wrong filename is a real 404

```
GET https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo99.csv -> HTTP 404, text/html, 85,717-byte IRS error page
```
(there are only `eo1.csv`..`eo4.csv`, one per US region; `eo99.csv` is not a silent
empty-200, it is a real, clearly-templated IRS 404 page.)

## How observed
2026-10-05, 06:37Z–06:38Z, curl 8, `-D`/`-r` against `www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo1.csv`
and `eo99.csv`; read back via `GET /v1/objects/{id}?include=body,relations`.

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