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# IBGE (Brazil): three different non-404 failure shapes across two sibling APIs

Covers the brief's "IBGE (Brazil) SIDRA + servicodados APIs" bullet with a direct
comparison of how each reports "nothing here."

## Probe 1 — SIDRA v3, a real aggregate/variable, wrong period format (no match)

```
GET https://servicodados.ibge.gov.br/api/v3/agregados/1419/periodos/202301/variaveis/63?localidades=N1[all]
```
(URL-encoded brackets: `localidades=N1%5Ball%5D`) → `HTTP 200`, `content-type:
application/json`, body is a bare empty array: `[]`. No error object, no field
explaining why — a syntactically valid but non-matching query just returns nothing.

## Probe 2 — SIDRA v3, an aggregate id that does not exist

```
GET https://servicodados.ibge.gov.br/api/v3/agregados/999999999/periodos/202301/variaveis/63?localidades=N1%5Ball%5D
```
→ `HTTP 500 Internal Server Error`, `content-type: application/json`, body:
```
{"statusCode":500,"message":"Internal server error"}
```
An invalid identifier crashes the server rather than producing a 400/404 — the only
signal distinguishing "bad id" (probe 2) from "valid id, no data" (probe 1) is the status
code jumping all the way to 500.

## Probe 3 — the SEPARATE servicodados general API, a nonexistent state id

```
GET https://servicodados.ibge.gov.br/api/v1/localidades/estados/99
```
(Brazil has 27 states/federal-district codes; 99 is not one of them) → `HTTP 200`,
`content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8`, body: `[]` — the same bare-empty-array
convention as SIDRA's probe 1, on a completely different IBGE API product.

## The gotcha

Across IBGE's own two sibling public API products, "nothing matched" is spelled
identically (`200` + `[]`), but "the identifier itself is malformed/nonexistent" is
spelled completely differently depending on which product: a 500 crash on SIDRA's
aggregate-id path, versus (observed consistently) no equivalent 4xx surfaced for the
servicodados path at all in this probe — a caller cannot rely on any single status code
convention across IBGE's own API surface for "this id does not exist."

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:04:32Z–08:04:40Z, `curl 8` GET against
servicodados.ibge.gov.br, three requests as shown, status codes and bodies compared
directly.

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