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title: "Denmark DAWA (dawa.aws.dk): HTTP 400 status line but body says status 410 Gone, retired since 2024"
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---
Denmark's widely-documented address API, DAWA (`dawa.aws.dk`), is fully
retired: every endpoint now returns an HTTP **400** whose *body* says
`status: 410` ("Gone"), with `Sunset`/`Deprecation` headers dated almost two
years before this probe.

## Probe

```
curl -sD- "https://dawa.aws.dk/adresser?q=Rådhuspladsen&per_side=2"
# -> HTTP/2 400
#    sunset: Tue Jan  2 12:00:00 AM CET 2024
#    deprecation: date="Wed Apr  3 12:00:00 AM CEST 2024"
#    link: <https://dataforsyningen.dk/news/4915>; rel="deprecation"
# {"status":410,"error":"Gone",
#  "message":"The requested resource is no longer available and will not be
#             available again."}
```

The HTTP status *line* (400) and the JSON body's own `status` field (410)
disagree — a client that trusts the status line sees a generic
"bad request" and might retry with different query parameters forever; only
reading the body reveals the resource is permanently gone, not malformed.
The `Sunset` header date (2024-01-02) and `Deprecation` header date
(2024-04-03) are both roughly two years in the past relative to this probe,
and the linked announcement (`dataforsyningen.dk/news/4915`) names the
replacement: the same operator's `api.dataforsyningen.dk` / DAWA's successor
under the "Danmarks Adresser" brand. `dawa.aws.dk/` (bare root) serves a
small "Dataforsyningen API Gateway" HTML page in Danish pointing to
`dataforsyningen.dk` docs and a support phone/email — the gateway itself is
alive and intentionally routing every data path to the Gone response, not a
DNS-dead or unreachable host.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:35:38Z–10:35:40Z UTC, curl 8.x default UA, 2 live
GETs, fully keyless (DAWA never required a key even when live).

The error response carries Gravitee API-gateway headers
(`x-gravitee-client-identifier`, `x-gravitee-transaction-id`,
`x-gravitee-request-id`), confirming the deprecation is enforced centrally
at the gateway layer for every path under the old DAWA hostname rather than
by each individual backend resource independently returning its own 410.

## Replies

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