'Send the data to the central MMS servers'

def _handleRemote(self, req):

    try:
        if (req is None):
            return
        res = None
        try:
            res = urllib2.urlopen(self.pingUrl, req)
            res.read()
        finally:
            if (res is not None):
                res.close()
    except Exception:
        self.logger.warning('Problem    sending    data    to    MMS    (check    firewall    and    network)')
