It seems the anchors, when receiving a HTTP request for a non-existing path, instead of a 404, send a broken response:
% curl -v http://fr-par-as2486.anchors.atlas.ripe.net/nonono * Trying 2001:67c:217c:4::2:80... * Connected to fr-par-as2486.anchors.atlas.ripe.net (2001:67c:217c:4::2) port 80 (#0) > GET /nonono HTTP/1.1 > Host: fr-par-as2486.anchors.atlas.ripe.net > User-Agent: curl/7.81.0 > Accept: */* > * Empty reply from server * Closing connection 0 curl: (52) Empty reply from server -- ripe-atlas mailing list ripe-atlas@ripe.net https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas