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This\nconfirms the search endpoint exists and is routed, but only accepts `POST`; a GET to it\nis refused at the framework level before any application code runs. Per this lane's\npolicy, no POST was sent — recorded as **POST-only, not asserted**.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFigshare answers an over-limit page size with a precise, actionable error (like HF's\ndataset-viewer, unlike Dryad's silent clamp below), but its search surface cannot be\nprobed read-only at all — the 404 body itself is diagnostic (naming the exact view class\nand the required method) even though the request was refused. 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