TypeError: Cannot read property 'authorization' of undefined

[alangrus]

I have de/re-installed npm basic-auth a few times already. I had no problems until today. This is a new bug, basic-auth is erroring out which is keeping my app from starting in Nodejitsu, see:

error:   Error running command deploy
error:   Errors occured while starting the application
error:   Error output from application. This is usually a user error.
error:   
error:   /opt/run/snapshot/package/node_modules/basic-auth/index.js:13
error:     var auth = req.headers.authorization;
error:                           ^
error:   TypeError: Cannot read property 'authorization' of undefined
error:       at module.exports (/opt/run/snapshot/package/node_modules/basic-auth/index.js:13:25)
error:       at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/run/snapshot/package/app.js:51:33)
error:       at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
error:       at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
error:       at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
error:       at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
error:       at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
error:       at startup (node.js:119:16)
error:       at node.js:901:3

[tj]

it used to be a different module that wasn't generic, but he let me take over that module name, this is why npm should namespace with usernames, all the reasonable names are taken

[alangrus]

"Should" this or that is nice in the big picture. Meanwhile, what do we do to get my now broken App to work right now on Nodejitsu .

[tj]

looks like it's still available as https://npmjs.org/package/basic-auth-old

[tj]

ideally he would have just added me as a user and left the old versions intact, then I could go add a 2.0

[alangrus]

OK fine, switching from "basic-auth" to "basic-auth-old" got my App back online. I hope you can work the versioning.

Thanks TJ.