UI settings: if server is unreachable, the error isn't caught

I used the UI to point my client to a local landscape deployment, on 10.0.1.11:8080. Turns out the UI tool defaults to https, which is fine, but which my server wasn't using, so it timed out eventually:

broker.log:
2012-03-07 14:33:22,291 ERROR [PoolThread-twisted.internet.reactor-1] Error contacting the server at https://10.0.1.11:8080/message-system.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/broker/transport.py", line 63, in exchange
    curly, data = self._curl(spayload, computer_id, message_api)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/broker/transport.py", line 42, in _curl
    headers=headers, cainfo=self._pubkey, curl=curl))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/lib/fetch.py", line 98, in fetch
    raise PyCurlError(e.args[0], e.args[1])
PyCurlError: Error 28: SSL connection timeout at 29938
2012-03-07 14:33:22,293 INFO [MainThread] Message exchange failed.

But another timeout is in play it seems, related to dbus. The ui settings app just crashed with this backtrace:

andreas@nsn7:~/canonical/source/landscape-client/trunk$ landscape-client-settings-ui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/ui/controller/app.py", line 61, in setup_ui
    self.on_fail)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/ui/controller/configuration.py", line 75, in persist
    self.register(on_notify, on_error, on_succeed, on_fail)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/ui/controller/configuration.py", line 89, in register
    self._configuration.get_config_filename())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/ui/model/registration/proxy.py", line 111, in register
    error_handler=error_handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I just verified and the UI settings app crashed before the broker reported the error.