urllib's error handling is not very helpful for this test, but I'm using it in an effort to avoid extra dependencies. This only checks if Nginx is alive and returning requests, not whether the HTTP status codes indicate success. The reason for this is that the test pillars we have in the repo are not valid, causing Buildbot and Homu to die after starting, and thus Nginx returns 502 Bad Gateway errors when it tries to reverse proxy requests. Enable the test on Travis as well.