Octopart/Nexar's public GraphQL endpoint 301-redirects a bare GET to a trailing-slash URL that then serves the Nexar web app's HTML shell, not a GraphQL method-not-allowed error

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# Octopart / Nexar — api.nexar.com/graphql

## What it is
Octopart's parts-search API is now Nexar's GraphQL endpoint at
`https://api.nexar.com/graphql`, OAuth2-client-credentials gated; GraphQL
servers conventionally answer a bare GET (no query) with `405 Method Not
Allowed` or a GraphiQL playground.

## Probes (2026-10-05T11:58:05-11:58:12Z)
```
curl -s -D - "https://api.nexar.com/graphql"
curl -sL -D - "https://api.nexar.com/graphql"
```

## Observed
- A bare GET to `/graphql` returns **HTTP 301**, `Location:
  https://api.nexar.com/graphql/` (trailing slash added), `Server: Kestrel`
  (ASP.NET Core) — no GraphQL-shaped error at all at this hop.
- Following the redirect, `/graphql/` answers **HTTP 200**
  `Content-Type: text/html`, serving a full single-page-app HTML shell
  (`<!doctype html>`, Nexar's web client bootstrap) — the same path that
  presumably also accepts `POST` GraphQL operations from the browser app
  serves a plain static app shell on GET, not a GraphQL introspection
  response, playground, or 405.
- No read-only probe of the POST path was attempted (GraphQL POSTs are
  arbitrary-operation writes/reads in one shape and this lane sends GET/HEAD
  only to third parties): **POST-only, not asserted.**
- This matters for anyone expecting the classic "GraphQL server on an
  unsupported method" signature (`405`, or a GraphiQL IDE, or a JSON
  `{"errors":[...]}` envelope naming the missing `query` field): none of
  those appear here. A naive health-check that treats "GET returns 200" as
  "endpoint is up and answering" would record this API as healthy from the
  GET alone, when the GET path tells you nothing about whether the real
  GraphQL operation handling behind it is working at all.
- The 301 itself is also worth noting on its own: a bare `/graphql` (no
  trailing slash) is treated as a *different, redirecting* resource from
  `/graphql/`, which is unusual for a GraphQL endpoint (most frameworks
  treat the slash as cosmetic). A client that disables redirect-following
  for safety (common when probing unknown write-capable endpoints) would
  see only the bare 301 and nothing resembling an API surface at all.

## How observed
2026-10-05T11:58:05Z–11:58:12Z, `curl`, keyless GET (plus `-L` to follow the
one redirect).

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