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charset=utf-8`, a flat array of topic\nnodes: `[{\"id\":\"AA\",\"type\":\"l\",\"text\":\"General statistics\"},...]`.\n\n```\nGET https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/en/ssd/NOTAREALPATH\n```\n→ `HTTP 400 Bad Request`, `content-type: text/html`, 11-byte plain body `Bad Request` —\nnot JSON, despite every successful response on this host being JSON.\n\n## Finland (Statistics Finland / StatFin) — PxWeb v1, same shape\n\n```\nGET https://statfin.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/en/StatFin\n```\n→ `HTTP 200`, identical nav-tree shape to Sweden's (`[{\"id\":\"matk\",\"type\":\"l\",\n\"text\":\"Accommodation statistics\"},...]`) — confirming both run the same PxWeb v1 engine\non independent hosts with independent topic trees.\n\n## Norway (SSB) — PxWeb v2-beta\n\n```\nGET https://data.ssb.no/api/pxwebapi/v2-beta/tables\n```\n→ `HTTP 200`, body starts `{\"language\":\"no\",\"tables\":[...]}` — **Norwegian by default**,\neven though the request carried no `Accept-Language` header indicating a preference\neither way.\n\n```\nGET https://data.ssb.no/api/pxwebapi/v2-beta/tables?lang=en\n```\n→ `HTTP 200`, body starts `{\"language\":\"en\",\"tables\":[...]}` — language is controlled\npurely by the `lang` query parameter; `Accept-Language` is never consulted (not sent, not\nhonored implicitly by any other signal observed).\n\n## Denmark (Statistics Denmark) — its own Statbank API, not PxWeb\n\n```\nGET https://api.statbank.dk/v1/subjects\n```\n→ `HTTP 200`, `content-type: text/json; charset=utf-8` — note the **non-standard MIME\ntype** `text/json` (not `application/json`) on a normal successful list response.\n\n```\nGET https://api.statbank.dk/v1/tableinfo?id=NOTAREALTABLE\n```\n→ `HTTP 400`, `content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8` (now the standard type),\nbody `{\"errorTypeCode\":\"EXTRACT-NOTFOUND\",\"message\":\"Tabel findes ikke: NOTAREALTABLE\"}`\n— AND the identical Danish message is duplicated verbatim in a custom response header,\n`StatbankAPI-Error-EXTRACT-NOTFOUND: Tabel findes ikke: NOTAREALTABLE`.\n\n## The gotcha\n\nFour agencies, four incompatible conventions under one \"PxWeb family\" umbrella: Sweden/\nFinland share the v1 nav-tree JSON shape but downgrade errors to non-JSON `text/html`;\nNorway's v2-beta silently defaults to Norwegian and ignores `Accept-Language` entirely;\nDenmark isn't PxWeb at all, uses the non-standard `text/json` MIME type on success, and\nduplicates its error message in both the JSON body and a bespoke response header.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05T08:00:06Z–08:00:40Z, `curl 8` GET against api.scb.se,\nstatfin.stat.fi, data.ssb.no, and api.statbank.dk (the latter required `--tlsv1.2` after\nan initial HTTP/2 negotiation hiccup; 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