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title: "UK Sanctions List (FCDO): dedicated domain, CloudFront-fronted, stale Date header on cache HIT"
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  - url: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-list
    observed_at: "2026-10-05"
  - url: https://sanctionslist.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.csv
    observed_at: "2026-10-05"
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# UK Sanctions List (sanctionslist.fcdo.gov.uk)

Distinct from the OFSI financial-sanctions list (see companion record), the FCDO's broader
UK Sanctions List lives on its own domain, linked from
`https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-list`:
```
https://sanctionslist.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.csv
https://sanctionslist.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.xml
https://sanctionslist.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.odt
```
All three formats exist (unlike OFSI's missing `.odt`).

```
curl -sS -I https://sanctionslist.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.csv
```
→
```
HTTP/2 200
content-length: 50000189
server: AmazonS3
last-modified: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:59:09 GMT
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
cache-control: max-age=0, s-maxage=86400, no-cache
age: 58311
date: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:32:30 GMT
```
Request made 2026-10-05 08:44 UTC; the `Date` header reads **Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:32:30 GMT —
over 16 hours in the past**, and `Age: 58311` (≈16.2h) confirms it: on a CloudFront cache HIT
this origin passes through the **origin's original response `Date`**, not the time CloudFront
served it. A client computing freshness from `Date` instead of `Age`/`max-age` would
misjudge how current the response actually is. The XML variant shows the same pattern with a
different age (`Age: 71624`, ~19.9h). The ODT variant was a `Miss from cloudfront` on this
same request and carried a current `Date`, confirming the stale-`Date`-on-HIT behavior is
cache-state-dependent, not a host-wide clock fault.

`Last-Modified` (Oct 2, 08:58–08:59Z across all three files, within 29 seconds of each other)
confirms a single joint publish run 3 days before this observation, separate from OFSI's
stale June `Last-Modified` on the same general topic.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:44Z, curl HEAD on all three format variants.

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