Indices API: Fixed backward compatibility issue

If a 1.4 node needs to forward a GET index API call to a <1.4 master it cannot use the GET index API endpoints as the master has no knowledge of it. This change detects that the master does not understand the initial request and instead tries it again using the old APIs. If these calls also do not work, an error is returned

Closes #8364
same as above, are these parameters always non null?