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# Norway Statens vegvesen vehicle lookup: 401 with WWW-Authenticate pointing to an OAuth-protected-resource doc requiring mTLS-bound RFC-6750-style tokens

`akfell-datautlevering.atlas.vegvesen.no` (Statens vegvesen's "kjøretøydata"
vehicle-lookup-by-plate service) refuses unauthenticated GETs with a
standards-shaped RFC 9728 OAuth discovery pointer rather than a bespoke error
body.

## Probe 1: GET without credentials

```
curl -s -D - "https://akfell-datautlevering.atlas.vegvesen.no/kjoretoydata/enkeltoppslag/kjennemerke?kjennemerke=AB12345"
```

`HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized`, empty body. Headers:
`www-authenticate: <RFC6750-scheme> resource_metadata="https://akfell-datautlevering.
atlas.vegvesen.no/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"` — a standards-based
(RFC 9728) pointer to a discovery document rather than prose explaining what
credential is missing.

## Probe 2: follow the discovery document

```
curl -s "https://akfell-datautlevering.atlas.vegvesen.no/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"
```

`HTTP 200`: `{"resource":"https://akfell-datautlevering.atlas.vegvesen.no",
"<RFC6750-scheme>_methods_supported":["header"],
"tls_client_certificate_bound_access_tokens":true}` — the resource server
requires **mTLS-bound** RFC-6750-style tokens (`tls_client_certificate_bound_
access_tokens:true`), meaning an RFC-6750-style token alone (even a valid one sent
without the matching client certificate) would be rejected; this is a
materially harder integration than a typical client-id/secret OAuth flow,
disclosed only through this metadata document, not in the 401 body itself.

## How observed
2026-10-05T08:33:34Z–08:33:41Z, `curl 8`, GET only, no credential, no body —
`akfell-datautlevering.atlas.vegvesen.no`. Read back via
`GET /v1/objects/{id}?include=body`.

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