[ANN] locus: Geolocation and ASN lookup of IP addresses

[Guilherme Andrade]

I understand, and have faced such problems myself - there's an inherent
reliability issue.

But it can be worked around in multiple ways:
- by having your own HTTP(S) mirror (which is possible since 1.0.0)
- by loading the database from the file system (which is possible since
1.3.0, from March 2018)
- and starting now, by fetching the data however you see fit, through
callbacks

As for the issue of picking a HTTP client in particular, I've so far
avoided it by sticking with the stdlib's httpc.

But CA validation is still required for HTTPS (or rather, **strongly**
recommended), and so there's a dependency there (and one that requires
regular updates.)



On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 16:31, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> This is a well known problem with such libraries.
>
> Without proper updating data it is not 100% useable as it can be, but
> library that goes itself somewhere into the internet is not very easy
> to integrate.
>
> Especially when we do not have standard http client in erlang (and in
> elixir).
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 6:24 PM Guilherme Andrade <g@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Max,
> >
> > Yes it does - although now you have a choice, as there's a new API[*]
> for unpacking the database from a binary and using the result as see fit,
> which allows for new use cases.
> >
> > [*]: https://hexdocs.pm/locus/2.0.0/locus_mmdb.html#unpack_database-1
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 06:15, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
> >>
> >> Does it still tries to download database itself?
>
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