diff --git a/apps/backend/backend_main.c b/apps/backend/backend_main.c
index f0309132..fd4e6170 100644
--- a/apps/backend/backend_main.c
+++ b/apps/backend/backend_main.c
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ ret2status(int                  ret,
     return retval;
 }
 
-
+#if 0 /* DEBUG */
 /* Debug timer */
 int
 backend_timer_setup(int   fd,
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ backend_timer_setup(int   fd,
  done:
     return retval;
 }
+#endif /* DEBUG */
 
 /*! usage
  */
@@ -1024,10 +1025,12 @@ main(int    argc,
 
     /* Start session-id for clients */
     clicon_session_id_set(h, 0);
+#if 0 /* debug */
     /* Enable this to get prints of datastore and session status */
     if (0 && clicon_debug_get() && 
 	backend_timer_setup(0, h) < 0)
 	goto done;
+#endif
     if (stream_timer_setup(0, h) < 0)
 	goto done;
     if (clixon_event_loop(h) < 0)
diff --git a/apps/restconf/restconf_main_native.c b/apps/restconf/restconf_main_native.c
index ab68516e5..fadef7c9 100644
--- a/apps/restconf/restconf_main_native.c
+++ b/apps/restconf/restconf_main_native.c
@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ restconf_sig_term(int arg)
     }
     else
 	exit(-1);
-    clicon_exit_set(); /* XXX should rather signal event_base_loop */
+    clicon_exit_set(); 
 }
 
 /*! Usage help routine
diff --git a/lib/src/clixon_path.c b/lib/src/clixon_path.c
index 33101948..b90194d9 100644
--- a/lib/src/clixon_path.c
+++ b/lib/src/clixon_path.c
@@ -1074,6 +1074,15 @@ api_path2xml_vec(char      **vec,
 	}
 	break;
     default: /* eg Y_CONTAINER, Y_LEAF */
+	if (restval != NULL){
+	    if (strict){
+		cprintf(cberr, "malformed api-path, =%s not expected", restval);
+		if (xerr &&
+		    netconf_malformed_message_xml(xerr, cbuf_get(cberr)) < 0)
+		    goto done;
+	        goto fail;
+	    }
+	}
 	if (x0 &&
 	    (x = xml_find_type(x0, NULL, name, CX_ELMNT)) == NULL){ /* eg key of list */
 	    if ((x = xml_new(name, x0, CX_ELMNT)) == NULL)
diff --git a/test/test_restconf_err.sh b/test/test_restconf_err.sh
index 78466aaa..27e6a2e9 100755
--- a/test/test_restconf_err.sh
+++ b/test/test_restconf_err.sh
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ expectpart "$(curl $CURLOPTS -X GET -H 'Accept: application/yang-data+xml' $RCPR
 
 # XXX cannot get this to work for all combinations of nc/netcat fcgi/native
 # But leave it here for debugging where netcat works properly
+# Alt try something like:
+# printf "Hello World!" | (exec 3<>/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/80; cat >&3; cat <&3; exec 3<&-)
 if false; then
     # Look for netcat or nc for direct socket http calls
     if [ -n "$(type netcat 2> /dev/null)" ]; then
@@ -245,6 +247,9 @@ fi
 new "restconf GET non-qualified list"
 expectpart "$(curl $CURLOPTS -X GET $RCPROTO://localhost/restconf/data/example:a)" 0 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' "{\"ietf-restconf:errors\":{\"error\":{\"error-type\":\"rpc\",\"error-tag\":\"malformed-message\",\"error-severity\":\"error\",\"error-message\":\"malformed key =example:a, expected '=restval'\"}}}"
 
+new "restconf GET container with rest-api"
+expectpart "$(curl $CURLOPTS -X GET $RCPROTO://localhost/restconf/data/example:table=x)" 0 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' "{\"ietf-restconf:errors\":{\"error\":{\"error-type\":\"rpc\",\"error-tag\":\"malformed-message\",\"error-severity\":\"error\",\"error-message\":\"malformed api-path, =x not expected\"}}}"
+
 new "restconf GET non-qualified list subelements"
 expectpart "$(curl $CURLOPTS -X GET $RCPROTO://localhost/restconf/data/example:a/k)" 0 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' "^{\"ietf-restconf:errors\":{\"error\":{\"error-type\":\"rpc\",\"error-tag\":\"malformed-message\",\"error-severity\":\"error\",\"error-message\":\"malformed key =example:a, expected '=restval'\"}}}"