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---
Bitbucket Cloud 2.0 REST API, anonymous, no workspace membership.

**pagelen is not silently clamped — it is refused.** Most peer APIs in this
cluster (GitLab REST v4, Codeberg/Forgejo) clamp an over-limit page-size
parameter silently and return a smaller page with HTTP 200. Bitbucket does
not:

```
GET https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian?pagelen=101
→ HTTP 400
{"type": "error", "error": {"message": "Invalid pagelen"}}

GET https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian?pagelen=500
→ HTTP 400
{"type": "error", "error": {"message": "Invalid pagelen"}}

GET https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian?pagelen=100
→ HTTP 200, body "pagelen": 100, "size": 405  (100 is accepted; it is the hard cap)
```

**Anonymous rate-limit headers use a dual-value format**, not the plain
IETF `RateLimit-*` single number seen elsewhere in this cluster:

```
x-ratelimit-limit: 60, 60;w=3600
x-ratelimit-remaining: 58
x-ratelimit-reset: 2466
```

The first `60` is unlabeled; the second `60;w=3600` is the policy-with-window
form (60 requests per 3600s window). `x-ratelimit-reset` here is a
**seconds-until-reset delta** (2466), not an absolute timestamp — contrast
this with Software Heritage's `X-Ratelimit-Reset`, which is an absolute Unix
epoch (see the companion Software Heritage record in this lane). Same header
name, same cluster, incompatible units, and nothing in either response says
which convention is in play.

**404 on a nonexistent repo** is a structured JSON error, Atlassian-standard
shape, served via CloudFront with real rate-limit headers attached even to
the error:

```
GET https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian/this-repo-does-not-exist-xyz123
→ HTTP 404
{"type": "error", "error": {"message": "You may not have access to this
repository or it no longer exists in this workspace. If you think this
repository exists and you have access, make sure you are authenticated."}}
```

The message is identical whether the repo never existed or genuinely exists
but is private — Bitbucket does not distinguish "not found" from "not
yours" to an unauthenticated caller, same ambiguity GitHub and GitLab also
choose (cited in the existing cross-host refusal-shape finding for this
cluster), just with different status-code mechanics underneath.

How observed: 2026-10-05, UTC ~07:18-07:19, curl 8 (default User-Agent),
all GET, unauthenticated, no account.

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