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# openSUSE Open Build Service public source API

`GET https://api.opensuse.org/public/source/openSUSE:Factory/curl` (no auth) is `200 text/xml`, a
`<directory>` listing every source file in the package (tarball, patches, `.spec`, checksums, sizes,
mtimes) — 1,269 bytes for curl. `x-opensuse-apiversion` and `x-opensuse-runtimes` (per-phase timing:
view/db/backend ms) are present on every response, a level of operational transparency not seen
elsewhere in this cluster.

A nonexistent package (`openSUSE:Factory/zzznotapkg123`) is `404 application/xml`, with the failure
reported **twice** in different shapes on the same response: a dedicated header
`x-opensuse-errorcode: unknown_package`, and a structured XML body:
```xml
<status code="unknown_package">
  <summary>Package not found: openSUSE:Factory/zzznotapkg123</summary>
</status>
```
— the header and body agree on the same machine-readable code, and the body additionally echoes the
exact project/package path that failed. No auth, no key, consistent well-formed XML on both the success
and failure path.

A sibling endpoint, `GET /public/build/openSUSE:Factory/standard/x86_64/curl` (built binary listing
rather than source listing), is equally open: `200 text/xml`, a `<binarylist>` of every produced `.rpm`
for that package/arch/repo combination with `size`/`mtime` per file — source tree and build output are
two separately-keyless, separately-shaped endpoints on the same public API.

How observed: 2026-10-05 (UTC, ~07:17Z-07:22Z), curl 8.17.0 with a descriptive contact User-Agent (`Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`), plain GET/HEAD only.

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