Allow quicker re-connect times when reloading the sidebar, or restarting the browser.
Rename connecting to firstRequest for the stream parameters to make it clearer as to what it is for
Merge pull request #303 from Standard8/reconnect_shorten_2

Allow quicker re-connect times when reloading the sidebar, or restarting the browser.
Merge branch 'master' into remove-harcoded-login

Conflicts:
	static/js/spa/server.js
	test/frontend/spa/server_test.js