The proxy lists four mirrors and rotated on 5xx alone, so a 4xx ended the
fan-out. Measured against the live services: overpass-api.de and its lz4 alias
answer 406 to this proxy's User-Agent, while overpass.kumi.systems and
overpass.private.coffee answer 200 to the byte-identical request. Every
Overpass-backed feature — road geometry, annotation outlines, place lookup —
was failing on an Apache error page with two healthy mirrors untried.
The refusal was then cached. The cache guard read `status < 500`, so the error
page was written to memory and to disk, and the serve-stale guard used the same
threshold and declined to replace it. Boundary-class queries hold a month-long
TTL: four of twenty-three cached entries on this machine held that 406, dated
days after the mirror had stopped refusing.
Both decisions now go through one predicate. A payload is data only when it is
a 2xx that is neither rate-limited nor a body-level runtime error, so what may
be cached and what may be replaced by a stale entry cannot drift apart again.
A refusal every mirror agrees on is still reported with the first mirror's
status and body, so a malformed query says what upstream said — after every
mirror has had its chance, not instead of it. fetchOverpassPayload takes
injectable endpoints and fetch so the rotation is covered without a live
mirror; restoring either half of the old behaviour fails the new tests.
Kadu Portugal
Bilawal Sidhu
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