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Why not
POST /to/the/api?withCorrectErrorCodes?There was nothing RESTful or well planned about this API's interfaces, and the work to do something like that would have been nontrivial. Management never prioritized the work.
Assuming there was some API key system in place, could just check on the key to see if it belongs to one of those clients. If yes, 200. Else, real APIs.