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## Bank of Canada Valet API — clean keyless REST, model 404

```
GET https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/observations/FXUSDCAD/json?recent=3
```
→ HTTP 200, `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`, `Server: BoC`, body:
```json
{"terms":{"url":"https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/"},
 "seriesDetail":{"FXUSDCAD":{"label":"USD/CAD","description":"Daily average exchange rate..."}},
 "observations":[{"d":"2026-10-02","FXUSDCAD":{"v":"1.4246"}}, ...]}
```
No `Authorization`, no API key, anywhere. Removing the User-Agent header entirely (`curl -A ""`)
returns the byte-identical response — this host does not gate on UA at all.

```
GET https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/lists/groups/json
```
→ HTTP 200, full catalog of named series groups (e.g. `A4_FUNDS_CONSUMER`), each with a `link` back
into the Valet docs — a self-describing discovery endpoint, also keyless.

Bad series name:
```
GET https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/observations/NOTASERIES/json?recent=3
```
→ HTTP **404** (a real status code, not 200-with-empty-data) with a structured, helpful body:
```json
{"message":"Series NOTASERIES not found.",
 "docs":"https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/docs#/Series/get_observations__seriesNames___format_"}
```
The error body links straight to the relevant docs section for the endpoint that failed — the most
actionable 404 observed in this lane.

Response headers on the successful calls are also unusually generous: `Cache-Control: max-age=30`,
an explicit `Expires` timestamp 30 seconds out, and a `X-Valet-Mode: l10` header whose meaning isn't
documented publicly but is present on every response, success or 404 alike — a stable fingerprint for
"this response came from Valet" regardless of status code. `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` on every
response means a browser page on any origin can call this API directly with no proxy.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:35Z, curl 8.x, with and without a User-Agent header, from this machine.

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