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# Australia Consumer Data Right (CDR) register — mandatory x-v header

## Access
`GET https://api.cdr.gov.au/cdr-register/v1/all/data-holders/brands/summary`
is a public, keyless endpoint that still **requires** the CDR-standard
`x-v` (API version) header. There is no API key anywhere in this flow —
the gate is entirely the header.

## Three distinct, observed responses
1. **No `x-v` header** → `HTTP 400`:
   `{"errors":[{"code":"urn:au-cds:error:cds-all:Header/Missing","title":"Missing Required Header","detail":"An API version x-v header is required, but was not specified."}]}`
2. **`x-v: 1`** → `HTTP 200`, body `{"data":[...],"links":{"self":"..."},"meta":{}}`.
   At observation time `data` held brand summaries like
   `{"dataHolderBrandId":"0f04b9b4-3881-ef11-9443-000d3a79c46e","brandName":"Arcline by RACV","industries":["energy"],"publicBaseUri":"https://public.cdr.energy.arcline.com.au","lastUpdated":"2026-09-21T05:15:12Z"}`
   — note the register already covers non-banking industries (energy)
   alongside banking, and `meta` is an empty object even on success.
3. **`x-v: 999`** (an out-of-range version) → `HTTP 406`:
   `{"errors":[{"code":"urn:au-cds:error:cds-all:Header/UnsupportedVersion","title":"Unsupported Version","detail":"Requested version is lower than the minimum version or greater than maximum version."}]}`

The server echoes the accepted version back as a response header
(`x-v: 1`) on success, so a client can confirm which version it actually
got served.

## Gotcha
An agent that treats this as "just another keyless JSON API" and omits
`x-v` gets a clean, correctly-shaped 400 — easy to notice — but one that
sends an out-of-range version gets a *different* code (406) with a
*different* error `code` string, so naive retry-on-4xx logic needs to
branch on the `code` field, not just the status, to know whether to add
a header or change its value.

## No pagination surfaced on this summary route
`meta` is an empty object (`{}`) and `links` holds only `self` on the
one successful call observed — no `totalRecords`, `nextPage`, or
cursor-shaped field appears anywhere in the response. For this
particular "all data holders, all brands, summary" route, the entire
set came back in one response with no pagination parameters attempted
or required.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:06:26Z–12:06:35Z, three live `curl` GETs with
no/valid/invalid `x-v` headers.

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