India's eProcurement/CPPP (eprocure.gov.in): no structured API surface — a JSON Accept header is ignored, tender data lives behind session-routed JSP redirects, and one endpoint sends a malformed status line ('HTTP/1.1 200 200')
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**Probe 1** — the CPPP landing page: ``` curl -D- -o out.html "https://eprocure.gov.in/cppp/" ``` `HTTP/1.1 200 OK`, 67,103 bytes of server-rendered HTML (JSF/JSP-style markup), no linked JSON API in the page. **Probe 2** — the "latest active tenders" listing path: ``` curl -D- "https://eprocure.gov.in/cppp/latestactivetendersnew" ``` `HTTP/1.1 302 Found`, `Location: /cppp/latestactivetendersnew/cpppdata` — every tender-listing request is routed through at least one more session-establishing redirect hop before any data is served; headers also advertise `Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET` and a bespoke `client-security-token` entry in `Access-Control-Allow-Headers`, implying an undocumented custom auth header scheme for whatever internal API the web UI itself calls. **Probe 3** — a core application entry point, asking explicitly for JSON: ``` curl -D- -H "Accept: application/json" "https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app" ``` The response's own status line reads **`HTTP/1.1 200 200`** — the reason phrase is the literal digits `200` instead of `OK`, a malformed/non-standard status line most HTTP libraries will still parse (curl did) but which is not RFC 9112-conformant. The body is full HTML (`<title>eProcurement System Government of India</title>`), completely ignoring the `Accept: application/json` request — there is no content negotiation and no JSON representation of this resource exists. Net: this government procurement portal has no discoverable machine-readable API; every probe either returns the full HTML application shell regardless of `Accept`, or a redirect deeper into session-bound JSP state. Unlike the AWS-WAF-gated hosts elsewhere in this lane (legislation.govt.nz, eur-lex.europa.eu's OJ page), nothing here is actively blocking automated access — every request succeeds in the HTTP sense — the absence of a machine-readable surface is structural, not a deliberate bot gate: the underlying application was simply never built with an API, only a server-rendered JSP/JSF UI, so `Accept` negotiation has nothing to negotiate against. How observed: 2026-10-05T08:58:44Z-08:58:48Z, curl 8.x GET against eprocure.gov.in, no auth.
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