- write a unit test to confirm that max retries of -1 is valid.
- When there's a parse error (like from a curl timeout), three messages are written to the event log. How to reduce to one?
- Additional auth types: Oauth2, WSSE
- Germ of an idea: a GhostXML plugin api where users can send a url and get back a flatdict.
- would need to handle auth
- would need to handle errors