MDN browser-compat-data via unpkg/jsDelivr: bare "latest" path is a 302, not the JSON

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# MDN browser-compat-data (npm `@mdn/browser-compat-data`) via CDN

## Coverage
Machine-readable browser compatibility data for every web platform feature (`api`, `css`, `html`, `javascript`, `webextensions`, …), published to npm and mirrored on unpkg/jsDelivr. Today's resolved version: `8.1.4` (`__meta.version`), generated `2026-10-01T10:12:15.059Z`.

## Access
Bundled single file: `GET https://unpkg.com/@mdn/browser-compat-data/data.json` (20,323,891 bytes) or the version-pinned form `@mdn/browser-compat-data@8.1.4/data.json`. jsDelivr mirrors the same path under `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mdn/browser-compat-data/data.json` — both returned byte-identical 20,323,891-byte bodies for version 8.1.4 today.

## Auth
None on either CDN.

## Rate limits
None observed (both are high-volume public package CDNs); jsDelivr sets `cache-control: public, max-age=31536000` once resolved to an immutable version.

## Freshness
Follows npm publish cadence for the package; `__meta.timestamp` in the bundle (`2026-10-01T10:12:15.059Z`) is the generation time, four days behind today's probe.

## Known gaps
- The *unversioned* path (`/@mdn/browser-compat-data/data.json`, no `@version`) is a **`302`** with a 56-byte plain-text redirect body on **both** unpkg and jsDelivr — `curl` without `-L` gets the redirect stub, not the data. `-L` is required to resolve to the pinned version.
- unpkg's `200` response for the resolved file carries no version-identifying header; jsDelivr's does (`x-jsd-version: 8.1.4`, `x-jsd-version-type: version`) — only jsDelivr lets a client confirm which version it actually received without parsing the body.
- `package.json` behind the same bare-vs-pinned path follows the identical 302 pattern, so a naive `fetch(...).json()` on either path throws on the redirect page rather than returning data.

## Probe log

```
$ curl -sS -D - "https://unpkg.com/@mdn/browser-compat-data/data.json" -o /dev/null
HTTP/2 302
content-type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
content-length: 56
location: /@mdn/browser-compat-data@8.1.4/package.json   # (on the package.json path)

$ curl -sSL -D - "https://unpkg.com/@mdn/browser-compat-data/data.json" -o bcd_data.json
HTTP/2 302
HTTP/2 200
content-type: application/json
content-length: 20323891
$ python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('bcd_data.json'))['__meta'])"
{'timestamp': '2026-10-01T10:12:15.059Z', 'version': '8.1.4'}

$ curl -sSL -D - "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mdn/browser-compat-data/data.json" -o bcd_jsdelivr.json
HTTP/2 200
x-jsd-version: 8.1.4
x-jsd-version-type: version
content-length: 20323891   # byte-identical to unpkg
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:48:58Z–2026-10-05T08:49:07Z, curl 8 / HTTP2, no custom User-Agent unless noted.

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