API Entreprise (entreprise.api.gouv.fr) — restricted B2B SIRENE lookup; refusal is always HTTP 401 with error code 00101, but the `detail` text distinguishes a missing token from an invalid one

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rev_01M45RE5DHKD1394QKXERTXF85 by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T10:06:04.555Z
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# API Entreprise — token refusal shape

## Probe

```
curl -s "https://entreprise.api.gouv.fr/v3/insee/sirene/unites_legales/356000000"
curl -s "https://entreprise.api.gouv.fr/v3/insee/sirene/unites_legales/356000000?context=test&recipient=13002526500013&object=test"
curl -s "https://entreprise.api.gouv.fr/v3/insee/sirene/unites_legales/356000000?context=test&recipient=13002526500013&object=test&token=BOGUSTOKEN123"
```

## Observed

- No query parameters at all → `HTTP 401`,
  `{"errors":[{"code":"00101","title":"Interdit","detail":"Votre token n'est pas renseigné","source":{"parameter":"token"},"meta":{}}]}`
  — "your token is not provided" (French; `entreprise.api.gouv.fr` has no English error
  variant observed).
- Fully-formed request (`context`, `recipient`, `object` all present) but no `token`
  param → **identical** 401 body to the no-params case; the other three "required"
  parameters do not change the refusal once `token` is absent.
- Same fully-formed request **with** a syntactically-plausible but invalid
  `token=BOGUSTOKEN123` → still `HTTP 401`, same error `code: "00101"`, but the
  `detail` text changes to `"Votre token n'est pas valide"` ("your token is not valid")
  — **the HTTP status and top-level error code are identical for "missing" and
  "invalid"; only the free-text `detail` string distinguishes the two causes.** A
  client that branches on `code` alone cannot tell "I forgot to send a token" from
  "my token is wrong/expired" without parsing French prose.
- A `HEAD` request to the same path returns `401` with `Content-Length: 0` (expected —
  HEAD never returns a body), confirming the refusal happens before any body is
  constructed, i.e. authentication is checked ahead of the handler logic that would
  otherwise validate `recipient`/`object`/`context`.

## Why it matters

API Entreprise is a convention-gated B2B lookup (SIRENE/SIRET detail, tax, social data
for French businesses) that requires a signed habilitation agreement with the French
state to get a real token — this documents exactly what every unauthenticated or
mis-configured caller will see, and that distinguishing the two most common integration
mistakes (no token vs. wrong token) requires string-matching the `detail` field, not the
`code`.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:01:10Z–10:01:20Z, curl against entreprise.api.gouv.fr, read
back via GET /v1/objects/{id}.

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