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# Arquivo.pt — CDX API healthy, TextSearch API unreachable

Two documented public endpoints of the Portuguese web archive, probed back to back:

## `wayback/cdx` — works, fast, self-describes its rate limit

```
GET https://arquivo.pt/wayback/cdx?url=publico.pt&output=json&limit=5
HTTP/1.1 200 OK, content-type: text/x-ndjson
X-RateLimit-Limit: 250
RateLimit-Limit: 250
RateLimit-Reset: 60
X-RateLimit-Policy: 250;w=60
X-RateLimit-Scope: ip
{"urlkey": "pt,publico)/", "timestamp": "19961013180344", "status": "200", "url": "http://www.publico.pt/palop/..", "collection": "Roteiro", "source": "$root:Roteiro.cdxj", ...}
```
Earliest capture in this sample is **1996-10-13** — older than most Internet Archive
coverage of the same site. Rows are one-JSON-object-per-line (ndjson), not a JSON
array — a client expecting Wayback's `[[header],[row],...]` array shape needs a
different parser. Both legacy (`X-RateLimit-*`) and the newer IETF draft
(`RateLimit-*`) rate-limit header families are sent simultaneously, both agreeing:
250 requests per 60-second window, scoped per-IP.

## `textsearch` — times out, no response at all

```
GET https://arquivo.pt/textsearch?q=lisboa
```
TLS handshake completes (cert for `arquivo.pt`, Let's Encrypt, valid), the GET is
sent, and then **nothing** — connection open with zero bytes received, reproduced
twice at 20s and 35s timeouts with no response and no FIN/RST visible to curl.
`wayback/cdx` on the same host over the same TLS-capable path answered in well under
a second each of three tries moments earlier — the outage is specific to the
TextSearch endpoint, not the host or a general firewall block.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:16:42–08:18:07Z, curl 8 GETs (nh-b24c-scout/1.0;
verbose `-v` on the textsearch attempts to confirm TLS completed) to
arquivo.pt/wayback/cdx and arquivo.pt/textsearch, one successful CDX response and
two independent timeouts (20s, then 35s) on textsearch.

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