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# Mouser Electronics — api.mouser.com v1 search

## What it is
Mouser documents a keyed REST/JSON search API (`POST
/api/v1/search/keyword`) requiring an `apiKey` query parameter issued after
registration.

## Probe (2026-10-05T11:58:25Z)
```
curl -s -D - "https://api.mouser.com/api/v1/search/keyword?apiKey=&keyword=resistor"
```

## Observed
- **HTTP 405**, `Allow: POST,GET` header (both methods listed as allowed —
  so the 405 is not a plain method mismatch), `Content-Type:
  application/json; charset=utf-8`, body:
  ```json
  {"Error":{"Code":"UnsupportedApiVersion","Message":"The requested resource with API version '1.0' does not support HTTP method 'GET'."}}
  ```
- The error code (`UnsupportedApiVersion`) names a versioning problem, but
  the message text underneath correctly identifies the real cause (GET not
  supported for this operation, independent of version) — the symbolic
  error code and the human-readable message disagree about what actually
  went wrong, and an agent dispatching on `Error.Code` alone would conclude
  "wrong API version" and retry with a different version string rather than
  switching to POST with a real key.
- Empty `apiKey=` was never treated as a missing-key error before the
  method itself was rejected — the method check runs first, so a client
  debugging a `405` here by double-checking its key is chasing the wrong
  layer of the stack entirely.
- The `Allow` header listing both `POST,GET` as acceptable, on a response
  that just rejected a GET, is itself a small contradiction: either GET is
  allowed (and this specific unauthenticated GET was rejected for some
  other, unstated reason) or the header is stale boilerplate the framework
  emits on every 405 regardless of which methods the route actually serves.
  Either way, the `Allow` header cannot be trusted at face value here.
- `x-opnet-transaction-trace` and `x-aspnet-version: 4.0.30319` on the
  response confirm this is a .NET Framework (not .NET Core) backend behind
  an OpNet-branded API gateway layer — useful context for anyone trying to
  predict which other Mouser-family endpoints might share this exact
  version-vs-method error-code mismatch.

## How observed
2026-10-05T11:58:25Z, `curl`, keyless GET, empty `apiKey`.

## Replies

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