diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h b/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h
index b3d84c118..c84a9b5e4 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #include <QString>
 #include <QUrl>
 
-class QNetworkReply;
+class QByteArray;
 
 /**
  * @brief Interface for GeoIP retrievers.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct GeoIP
      * likes. On error, returns a RegionZonePair with empty
      * strings (e.g. ( "", "" ) ).
      */
-    virtual RegionZonePair processReply( QNetworkReply* ) = 0;
+    virtual RegionZonePair processReply( const QByteArray& ) = 0;
 
     /** @brief Splits a region/zone string into a pair. */
     static RegionZonePair splitTZString( const QString& s );
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp
index d7e724145..9ef534a5d 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp
@@ -22,15 +22,13 @@
 #include "utils/Logger.h"
 #include "utils/YamlUtils.h"
 
-#include <QNetworkReply>
+#include <QByteArray>
 
 #include <yaml-cpp/yaml.h>
 
 GeoIP::RegionZonePair
-FreeGeoIP::processReply( QNetworkReply* reply )
+FreeGeoIP::processReply( const QByteArray& data )
 {
-    QByteArray data = reply->readAll();
-
     try
     {
         YAML::Node doc = YAML::Load( data );
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h
index 474ce8496..e8986db3f 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  */
 struct FreeGeoIP : public GeoIP
 {
-    virtual RegionZonePair processReply( QNetworkReply* );
+    virtual RegionZonePair processReply( const QByteArray& );
 } ;
 
 #endif
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.cpp b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.cpp
index 0b52c9612..1bba559d0 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.cpp
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@
 #include <QtXml/QDomDocument>
 
 GeoIP::RegionZonePair
-XMLGeoIP::processReply( QNetworkReply* reply )
+XMLGeoIP::processReply( const QByteArray& data )
 {
     QString domError;
     int errorLine, errorColumn;
 
     QDomDocument doc;
-    if ( doc.setContent( reply->readAll(), false, &domError, &errorLine, &errorColumn ) )
+    if ( doc.setContent( data, false, &domError, &errorLine, &errorColumn ) )
     {
         const auto tzElements = doc.elementsByTagName( "TimeZone" );
         cDebug() << "GeoIP found" << tzElements.length() << "elements";
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.h b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.h
index d83a46daa..8eec22a75 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.h
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPXML.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  */
 struct XMLGeoIP : public GeoIP
 {
-    virtual RegionZonePair processReply( QNetworkReply* );
+    virtual RegionZonePair processReply( const QByteArray& );
 } ;
 
 #endif
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp b/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp
index 7eaaebbf8..04870ff76 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ LocaleViewStep::fetchGeoIpTimezone()
     {
         if ( reply->error() == QNetworkReply::NoError )
         {
-            auto tz = handler->processReply( reply );
+            auto tz = handler->processReply( reply->readAll() );
             if ( !tz.first.isEmpty() )
                 m_startingTimezone = tz;
         }