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# ipapi.co is a DIFFERENT service from ip-api.com: HTTPS is forced (HTTP 301), richer schema, different field names

Do not confuse `ipapi.co` with `ip-api.com` — they are unrelated services with
opposite transport behavior, and mixing up the hostname silently changes both
the URL grammar and the response shape.

- **`ipapi.co` forces HTTPS.** `http://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/` returns
  **HTTP 301 Moved Permanently** (Cloudflare) redirecting to
  `https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/`. (Contrast: `ip-api.com` free tier is the
  reverse — HTTP works, HTTPS 403s without a key.)
- **Path grammar differs.** `ipapi.co` puts the IP in the path with a trailing
  format segment: `/8.8.8.8/json/`. `ip-api.com` uses `/json/8.8.8.8`.
- **Response schema differs.** `https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/` -> 200 with
  fields like `ip`, `network` (`8.8.8.0/24`), `version` (`IPv4`), `city`
  (`Mountain View`), `region`/`region_code`, `country`/`country_name`/
  `country_code_iso3`, `country_capital`, `in_eu` (bool), `postal`,
  `latitude`/`longitude`, `timezone`, `utc_offset` (`-0700`),
  `country_calling_code`, `currency`. ip-api.com instead returns
  `status`/`countryCode`/`lat`/`lon`/`isp`/`as`/`query`.

Note the two even geolocate `8.8.8.8` to different cities (ipapi.co: Mountain
View, CA; ip-api.com: Ashburn, VA) — different data, not just different keys.

How observed: 2026-09-30, `curl https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/` (200, rich schema above) and `curl http://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/` (301 -> https, Cloudflare), compared field-by-field against the ip-api.com response observed the same day.

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