Add GeoIP API support for local storage and alternative geoip support

I would second this, the performance recently has been a big problem on some of my sites.

I've been commenting out line 63 of cookiecontrol.module as a quick fix.

//drupal_add_js('https://www.geoplugin.net/javascript.gp', array('type' => 'external'));

I would 3rd this, it's defiantly slowing page load times and it accesses the service every damn page.

Even if the module could cache the results for a specific IP and reuse them.

Download the data locally could be automated in a similar way that the drupal google analytics module does it, and stores it in the files/ folder for a while.

i'm open to patches for this.

I have noticed the geo server does slow down every now and then.

if you just set your country list to be empty then no geo js will be loaded anyway.

Yeah but if you want to actually just limit to countries that require it, then you need to use the field.

my suggestion was just instead of commenting out module code for now.

I'm hoping somebody has time to submit a patch to cache the geo data locally like GAnalytics module does. Fingers crossed.

Here is my take on a possible geoip support. The patch does not introduce geoip as a dependency but instead adds an admin setting, which is only enabled when the module is available. Once the admin setting is turned on to use the module, that API will be used instead of geoplugin.