cookieBAR - Timeout for freegeoip

[themichael123]

Hi, on every request the following error message is shown in the chrome console:

cookieBAR - Timeout for freegeoip

[ToX82]

That's a bit of a problem, indeed.
CookieBAR needs freegeoip because the bar should be shown only for the users who are actually subject to the cookie law, the problem is that freegeoip service, while free, is very slow and sometimes it takes 20+ seconds to lookup an ip address.

To avoid such long waiting times, there is a timeout for that request and when the timeout occurs you see it in the console.

I don't really know how to avoid it... apart of just hiding the message itself, but that's not resolving the issue...

[themichael123]

Thanks for the prompt reply. From my perspective there are several possibilities:

Simple possible solution: Add an API fallback, e.g. http://www.telize.com/geoip

Complex possible solution: Self host the GEO API on AWS Lambda or some other scalable & cheap service.

[ToX82]

I didn't know telize, looks like a good alternative to freegeoip. I'll do some testing and if it's actually faster I could make the switch...

[ToX82]

Fixed using telize. Thank you for the suggestion!

[digitall-it]

//cdn.jsdelivr.net/cookie-bar/1/cookiebar-latest.min.js still seems to refer to 1.5.3.

[digitall-it]

Seems like the CDN has propagation issues.