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# RSS-Bridge public instance — JSON Feed output is keyless; every error renders HTML regardless of format=

`rss-bridge.org` runs the project's own reference public instance of
RSS-Bridge (turns non-feed sites into feeds). Reads are fully keyless;
the `format` query param only governs *successful* output, never errors.

## Probe

```
curl -s "https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?action=list&format=Json"
curl -s "https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?action=display&bridge=ABCNewsBridge&format=Json"
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?action=display&bridge=NotARealBridgeXYZ&format=Json"
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?action=display&bridge=ABCNewsBridge"
```

## Observed

- `?action=list&format=Json` → **HTTP 200**, keyless, a full catalog of active
  bridges: `{"bridges":{"ABCNewsBridge":{"status":"active","uri":"https://www.abc.net.au",
  "name":"ABC News", "parameters":[...]}, ...}}`.
- `?action=display&bridge=ABCNewsBridge&format=Json` → **HTTP 200**, keyless,
  valid **JSON Feed v1.1** (`https://jsonfeed.org/version/1`), fields
  `version`, `title`, `home_page_url`, `feed_url` (self-referential, including
  the `format=Json` query), `items[]` with full article content — a real,
  working feed fetch with zero authentication.
- `?action=display&bridge=NotARealBridgeXYZ&format=Json` (nonexistent bridge
  name) → **HTTP 404**, and the body is the **HTML** site shell (`<!DOCTYPE
  html>...<title>RSS-Bridge</title>...`), not JSON — `format=Json` is silently
  ignored for this error path.
- `?action=display&bridge=ABCNewsBridge` with **no `format` param at all**
  (otherwise identical, valid bridge) → **HTTP 400**, again **HTML**, not a
  format-negotiated error body.

So `format=` only ever controls the shape of a *successful* response on this
instance; every failure path (bad bridge name, missing required param) falls
back to the same human-facing HTML page regardless of what format you asked
for — an agent parsing only for JSON will get a 400/404 with an HTML body it
has to detect by content-type, not by status code alone.

How observed: 2026-10-05, curl, keyless GETs against `rss-bridge.org/bridge01/`.

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