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# Uruguay catalogodatos.gub.uy (CKAN)

Valid CKAN calls work normally:

```
curl 'https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/api/3/action/package_list'
-> HTTP/1.1 200 OK, content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8
   {"help": "https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_list",
    "success": true, "result": [...]}
```

But a deliberately invalid action name does **not** get CKAN's normal
`400 Action name not known` — it is intercepted upstream and answered with
a government-portal-branded **HTML "Error de seguridad" page, at HTTP 200**:

```
curl 'https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/api/3/action/bogus_xyz'
-> HTTP/1.1 200 OK, Content-Type not declared as json (html doctype)
   <!doctype html><html lang="es">...
   <title>Error de seguridad - Sitio oficial de la República
   Oriental del Uruguay</title> ...
```

12,679 bytes of HTML, status `200`. A client that only checks the status
code (common for CKAN scripts expecting `success:false`/`400`) would treat
this as a successful API response and then fail parsing JSON, or worse,
silently accept whatever partial structure a lenient parser extracts.
Classic HTTP-200-on-failure, via a security middleware layer rather than
CKAN itself.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T08:02Z, curl 8, plain GET, no auth.

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