Updated git ignore
Updated gitignore
More gitignore work
More gitignore work
More gitignore work
Fix for STOR-343 and STOR-344

Improved exception handling
Modified .gitignore to stop ignore configure an aclocal
Boost m4 from https://github.com/tsuna/boost.m4
local macros and configure committed

this is normal, but especially necessary to
correctly configure on SL5 which has autoconf < 2.6 which
doesn't play well with new boost macros.
More gitignore changes
Build stuff.
More .gitignore hacking
More .gitignore stuff.
Updated build instructions
fix for https://issues.infn.it/jira/browse/STOR-344
More gitignore tweaking
synch call refactoring

get rid of stupid cut&paste from the past (not as much
as I'd like but it's a first step)
More request handling refactoring.
More request handling refactoring.
Initialize CURL User-Agent properly (failed on SL6)