diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 12c64a9..633e5b2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
         install_requires='''
             enum34 >=1.0.3
             feedparser >=4.1
+            requests >=2.23.0
             ''',
         entry_points={
                 'console_scripts': [ 'flashbake = flashbake.console:main',
diff --git a/src/flashbake/__init__.py b/src/flashbake/__init__.py
index 36a9490..f25c9c0 100644
--- a/src/flashbake/__init__.py
+++ b/src/flashbake/__init__.py
@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ def init(self):
                 if isinstance(plugin, flashbake.plugins.AbstractMessagePlugin):
                     logging.debug("Message Plugin: %s" % plugin_name)
                     # TODO add notion of dependency for ordering
-                    if 'flashbake.plugins.location:Location' == plugin_name:
-                        self.msg_plugins.insert(0, plugin)
-                    else:
-                        self.msg_plugins.append(plugin)
+                    # if 'flashbake.plugins.location:Location' == plugin_name:
+                    #    self.msg_plugins.insert(0, plugin)
+                    # else:
+                    self.msg_plugins.append(plugin)
                 if isinstance(plugin, flashbake.plugins.AbstractFilePlugin):
                     logging.debug("File Plugin: %s" % plugin_name)
                     self.file_plugins.append(plugin)
diff --git a/src/flashbake/plugins/location.py b/src/flashbake/plugins/location.py
index c97578e..a7e5960 100644
--- a/src/flashbake/plugins/location.py
+++ b/src/flashbake/plugins/location.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import re
 import urllib
 import urllib2
+from requests import get
 
 
 
@@ -141,26 +142,10 @@ def __get_text(self, node_list):
         return text_value
 
     def __get_ip(self):
-        no_reply = 'http://www.noreply.org'
-        opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())
+        ip_me = get('https://api.ipify.org').text 
 
         try:
-            # open the weather API page
-            ping_reply = opener.open(urllib2.Request(no_reply)).read()
-            hello_line = None
-            for line in ping_reply.split('\n'):
-                if line.find('Hello') > 0:
-                    hello_line = line.strip()
-                    break
-            if hello_line is None:
-                logging.error('Failed to parse Hello with public IP address.')
-                return None
-            logging.debug(hello_line)
-            m = re.search('([0-9]+\.){3}([0-9]+){1}', hello_line)
-            if m is None:
-                logging.error('Failed to parse Hello with public IP address.')
-                return None
-            ip_addr = m.group(0)
+            ip_addr = ip_me
             return ip_addr
         except HTTPError, e:
             logging.error('Failed with HTTP status code %d' % e.code)