bringing the config and required lib in from HEAD

Makefile.PL

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ requires 'Catalyst::View::JSON';
 requires 'Catalyst::View::TT';
 requires 'JSON::XS';
 requires 'Log::Log4perl::Catalyst';
+requires 'Hash::Merge';
 
 # Transient dependencies from Ensembl
 requires 'Parse::RecDescent';

ensembl_rest.conf

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jsonp=0
   disconnect_if_idle = 0
 
   # Control if we attempt pings and re-connections
-  reconnect_when_lost = 0
+  reconnect_when_lost = 1
 
   # Set to control internal Ensembl API caching
   no_caching = 1