oai-pmh: add custom HTTParty client

Motivation:

Currently, there is a lot of HTTP/networking code mixed in with application code. It would be good to seperate these concerns, particularly as we want to introduce connection reuse.

Modification:

Introduce new class that uses HTTParty as a mixin. Update code to take advantage of this new class.

Result:

Reduced code duplication; now easier to add new features.

enabled an automatic merge when all merge checks for 6f6b4c75 pass

merged