401 Unauthorized when trying to upgrade about node-geoip

[ollyde]

The documentation is wrong.

The following works.

node ./node_modules/geoip-lite/scripts/updatedb.js license_key=XYZ

[bluesmoon]

@OllyDixon not sure how your command is different from running npm run updatedb license_key=XYZ as internally npm does exactly what you've written.

[bluesmoon]

hmm, I wonder if the quoting is an issue

[bluesmoon]

no, doesn't look like that's an issue. Are you sure the license key is the same in both commands?

[bluesmoon]

Both commands call the same url:

bos-mp9bf:node-geoip ptellis$ npm run updatedb license_key=ABC123

> [email protected] updatedb
> node scripts/updatedb.js "license_key=ABC123"

https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id=GeoLite2-Country-CSV&suffix=zip&license_key=ABC123
Checking  GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip
ERROR: HTTP Request Failed [401 Unauthorized]
bos-mp9bf:node-geoip ptellis$ node scripts/updatedb.js license_key=ABC123
https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id=GeoLite2-Country-CSV&suffix=zip&license_key=ABC123
Checking  GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip
ERROR: HTTP Request Failed [401 Unauthorized]

[ollyde]

@bluesmoon I don't know I just copied the command and run in the project root both times.

[bluesmoon]

ok. That error message is very specific to an invalid license key. Might help to edit the source and add some logging statements to see if there are any differences in the requests.

[ollyde]

@bluesmoon I'll close for now.