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No UA\n  requirement (byte-identical with no UA header at all), no cookie, no auth, clean 200s including a\n  self-describing empty-result shape (`\"isHttpError\":false` next to `results:[]`). This contradicted\n  this lane's own working assumption that TMX would be a refusal case — it was not.\n- **NSE India** (`nseindia.com/api/marketStatus`): blocks at the **connection layer** — a descriptive,\n  non-browser-looking User-Agent string gets an HTTP/2 stream reset with **no status code at all**\n  (`curl: (92)`, reproduced 4/4), while the identical request with a generic desktop Chrome UA string\n  and **zero cookies** succeeds every time (4/4). The common belief that NSE requires a prior\n  homepage-cookie handshake was tested directly and found unnecessary; the actual gate is UA-string\n  content, checked before any cookie logic.\n- **HKEX** (`www1.hkex.com.hk/hkexwidget`): a **bot-management WAF** (Akamai-shaped `TS0...` cookies,\n  Tomcat \"Error report\" 403) that rejects every plain-HTTP request uniformly — a real, valid symbol\n  and a nonexistent one get the identical 403, so the gate fires before the application's own symbol\n  validation ever runs, and a same-site `Referer` header makes no difference.\n- **BSE India** (`api.bseindia.com`): a **uniform WAF 403** (\"Access Denied\", Apache-module-shaped,\n  unique `Reference #` per hit) that held constant across three header combinations including a full\n  desktop browser UA with matching `Origin`/`Referer` — unlike NSE, changing the declared UA does not\n  get a client through.\n\nNet: \"non-US exchange, public data\" spans the full range from zero gate (TMX) through a\nfingerprint-on-one-header block (NSE) to two different flavors of uniform WAF block that no amount of\nheader-tuning gets past in a plain HTTP client (HKEX, BSE) — there is no single mitigation that works\nacross this cluster.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05, live probes against all four hosts, see the four cited source records for\nexact 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