diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/MediaController.php b/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/MediaController.php
index 245da3b0b..63d60d4b1 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/MediaController.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/MediaController.php
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class Rest_MediaController extends Zend_Rest_Controller
             //Our RESTful API takes "full_path" as a field, which we then split and translate to match
             //our internal schema. Internally, file path is stored relative to a directory, with the directory
             //as a foreign key to cc_music_dirs.
-            if ($requestData["full_path"]) {
+            if (isset($requestData["full_path"])) {
                 Application_Model_Preference::updateDiskUsage(filesize($requestData["full_path"]));
 
                 $fullPath = $requestData["full_path"];
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
index 5fc04058e..c5e4da373 100644
--- a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ class MessageListener:
                                requeue=False) #Important that it doesn't requeue the message
         
         except Exception as e:
+            logging.exception(e)
             #If ANY exception happens while processing a file, we're going to NACK to the 
             #messaging server and tell it to remove the message from the queue. 
             #(NACK is a negative acknowledgement. We could use ACK instead, but this might come
@@ -118,7 +119,6 @@ class MessageListener:
             StatusReporter.report_failure_to_callback_url(callback_url, api_key, import_status=2,
                                                           reason=u'An error occurred while importing this file')
             
-            logging.exception(e)
 
         else:
             # ACK at the very end, after the message has been successfully processed.
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py
index 75769a692..2a0963dd9 100644
--- a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py
+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ class StatusReporter():
         put_payload = json.dumps(audio_metadata)
         logging.debug("sending http put with payload: " + put_payload)
         r = requests.put(callback_url, data=put_payload, 
-                         auth=requests.auth.httpbasicauth(api_key, ''),
-                         timeout=statusreporter._http_request_timeout)
-        logging.debug("http request returned status: " + str(r.status_code))
+                         auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(api_key, ''),
+                         timeout=StatusReporter._HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+        logging.debug("HTTP request returned status: " + str(r.status_code))
         logging.debug(r.text) # log the response body
 
         #todo: queue up failed requests and try them again later.
@@ -28,16 +28,17 @@ class StatusReporter():
         # TODO: Make import_status is an int?
       
         logging.debug("Reporting import failure to Airtime REST API...")
+        audio_metadata = dict()
         audio_metadata["import_status"] = import_status
         audio_metadata["comment"] = reason  # hack attack
         put_payload = json.dumps(audio_metadata)
         logging.debug("sending http put with payload: " + put_payload)
         r = requests.put(callback_url, data=put_payload, 
-                         auth=requests.auth.httpbasicauth(api_key, ''),
-                         timeout=statusreporter._http_request_timeout)
-        logging.debug("http request returned status: " + str(r.status_code))
+                         auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(api_key, ''),
+                         timeout=StatusReporter._HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+        logging.debug("HTTP request returned status: " + str(r.status_code))
         logging.debug(r.text) # log the response body
 
-        #todo: queue up failed requests and try them again later.
+        #TODO: queue up failed requests and try them again later.
         r.raise_for_status() # raise an exception if there was an http error code returned