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The CKAN-discovered \"API Guide\" is a `.docx`, not inline docs, so an\nagent following only the JSON resource URL would never learn this without\nreading that document first.\n\n## Probe 3: a wrong path-segment field name is a real 500\n\n```\ncurl -s \"https://data.tc.gc.ca/v1.3/api/eng/vehicle-recall-database/recall/make-name/HONDA/format/json\"\n```\n\n`HTTP 500`, `{\"Message\":\"An error has occurred.\"}` — mixing the path-segment\nfilter form with a path-segment `format` selector (instead of `?format=`)\nbreaks the route entirely.\n\n## How observed\n2026-10-05T08:32:07Z–08:32:38Z, `curl 8`, keyless, `open.canada.ca` (CKAN\ndiscovery) then `data.tc.gc.ca` (both `http://` and `https://` confirmed\nequivalent). 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