improved http exception handling

[martin308]

Goal

While looking for memory leaks in response to #99 I noticed that in the event that there is an exception while sending a report we continue trying to send the report when we should just stop trying to send the report as we will just get further exceptions if we continue the process. I also noticed that under high load the notify endpoint closes keep alive connections pretty aggressively which results in reports falling to send so I have disabled keep alive on the platforms where we can.

Review

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• Commented on code changes inline explain the reasoning behind the approach
• Reviewed the test cases added for completeness and possible points for discussion
• A changelog entry was added for the goal of this pull request
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• This pull request is ready for:
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  • Structural review of the classes, functions, and properties modified
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• Internal consistency with the rest of the library - is there any overlap between existing interfaces and any which have been added?
• Usage friction - is the proposed change in usage cumbersome or complicated?
• Performance and complexity - are there any cases of unexpected O(n^3) when iterating, recursing, flat mapping, etc?
• Concurrency concerns - if components are accessed asynchronously, what issues will arise
• Thoroughness of added tests and any missing edge cases
• Idiomatic use of the language