for __heartbeat__ use an application level global timeout to catch the situation where the other end is not reachable and ensure total wait time is <= 5s (in this case, no 'connect' event is ever emitted)

Handle connection errors and timeouts correctly on heartbeat dependency checks and send error in response - issue #1767

issue #1733

update BrowserID to Persona in the prove_template email signature - not final but now it is less confusing and matches the url and from address

Change browserid.org urls to persona.org, introduce static.login.persona.org for all static resources.

When a user completes the verification, set their logged in status for the site so a silent assertion can get generated.

* Add countdown until the redirect.

add host parameter back to mysql configuration - fixes accidental regression in commit 3f4368d2

complete_user_creation is less aggressive about deleting the pendingCreation toeken - this allows a user to reload to try to complete email creation if the database is temporarily down

* IE and Opera both try to download all declared fonts, whether the fonts are used or not.  This is an unnecessary performance hit
* Create separate font files. One each for common, dialog, and mainsite.  The mainsite needs italics, which the dialog does not.

issue #1695

* Add a new controller and template - rp_info
* Adjust the screen size hacks to take into account the dynamic height "favicon"
* Add an action to start the rp_info service.

* properly check and escape logoURL and name in dialog.js
* Add some tests ensuring logoURL and name are escaped.
* Print information in rp_info controller.

issue #1098

Fix globals in wsapi.js that seemed to be created unintentionally and fix the modules that depended on implicit globals

* Fix wait, delay, and error screen colors and positions.

rework uncaught exception handling: log an error, don't bring the process down, bump a statsd counter: issue #1558

Support non-ascii passwords: when forwarding requests, Content-Length should be byte length, not number of unicode chars.  issue #1631

db.ping() must use the same application level query timing and reconnection logic as other query types - issue #1608