Adds code to properly handle errors in the response received back from
the Hanlon server correctly (will throw an error rather than trying to
handle the HTML that comes back from the server as if it were JSON)
fixes a bug with an undefined varaible in the HttpHelper that was
introduced in a recent pull request
Remove empty .gitignore files and cleanup redundant .gitignore entries
Merge pull request #70 from mtnbikenc/gitignore-cleanup

Fixes #69 Remove empty .gitignore files and cleanup redundant .gitignore entries
Merge pull request #67 from tjmcs/tb/handle-http-not-found-error

Fixes #68 (RESTful errors not handled properly)

Thanks, everyone!
Merge pull request #73 from tjmcs/tb/fix-undef-local-var-bug

Fixes #76