Image explodes when coursesapi is down

[Highfire1]

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='coursesapi.langaracs.ca', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /index/courses (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0xf475bcfc78f0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

_langara-course-planner_logs.txt

action items:

• fail gracefully when that url is down.