JSON protocol request:
{"method": "getwork", "params": [], "id":26}

* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8332 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... * TCP_NODELAY set
* connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8332 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'rpcproxy'
> POST / HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic cnBjcHJveHk6bG9vcHAwMGxQdXNo
Host: 127.0.0.1:8332
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-type: application/json
Content-Length: 46

* The requested URL returned error: 500
* Closing connection #0

{
        # network ports
        "listen" : [
                # binary protocol (default), port 8336
#               { "port" : 8336 },

                # HTTP JSON-RPC protocol, port 8337
                { "port" : 8337, "protocol" : "http-json" },

                # HTTP JSON-RPC protocol, port 8339,
                # with trusted proxy appserver.example.com forwarding
                # requests to us
                { "port" : 8339, "protocol" : "http-json",
                  "proxy" : "derp.com" },

                # binary protocol, localhost-only port 8338
                { "host" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 8338, "protocol" : "binary" }
        ],

        # database settings
        "database" : {
                "engine" : "mysql",

                # 'host' defaults to localhost, if not specified
#               "host" : "mysql.example.com",

                # 'port' uses proper default port for the DB engine,
                # if not specified
#               "port" : 12121,

                "name" : "sc",
                "username" : "pushpool",
                "password" : "hurpadurp",

                "stmt.pwdb" :
                  "SELECT password FROM pool_worker WHERE username = ?"
        },

        # cache settings
        "memcached" : {
                "servers" : [
                        { "host" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 11211 }
                ]
        },

        "pid" : "/tmp/pushpoold.pid",

        # overrides local hostname detection
        "forcehost" : "localhost.localdomain",

        "log.requests" : "/tmp/request.log",
        "log.shares" : "/tmp/shares.log",

        # the server assumes longpolling (w/ SIGUSR1 called for each blk)
        "longpoll.disable" : false,

        # length of time to cache username/password credentials, in seconds
        "auth.cred_cache.expire" : 75,

        # RPC settings
        "rpc.url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
        "rpc.user" : "rpcproxy",
        "rpc.pass" : "hurpadurp",

        # rewrite returned 'target' to difficulty-1?
        "rpc.target.rewrite" : true

 # JSON-RPC options (for controlling a running Bitcoin/bitcoind process)

 # server=1 tells Bitcoin to accept JSON-RPC commands.
 server=1

 # You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api
 rpcuser=rpcproxy
 rpcpassword=hurpadurp

 # How many seconds bitcoin will wait for a complete RPC HTTP request.
 # after the HTTP connection is established.
 rpctimeout=30

 # By default, only RPC connections from localhost are allowed.  Specify
 # as many rpcallowip= settings as you like to allow connections from
 # other hosts (and you may use * as a wildcard character):
 #rpcallowip=[i][b]I ASSUME LOCALHOST IS ON BY DEFAULT[/b][/i]
 #rpcallowip=192.168.1.*

 # Listen for RPC connections on this TCP port:
 rpcport=8332

{"result":null,"error":{"code":-32700,"message":"Parse error"},"id":null}

{
        # network ports
        "listen" : [
                # HTTP JSON-RPC protocol, port 8337
                { "port" : 8337, "protocol" : "http-json" }
],
        # database settings
        "database" : {
                # ... or ...

                "engine" : "mysql",

                "host" : "localhost",

                "port" : 3306,

                "name" : "sc",
                "username" : "pushpool",
                "password" : "SWECRETS",

                "stmt.pwdb" :
                  "SELECT password FROM pool_worker WHERE username = ?"

        },

        # cache settings
        "memcached" : {
                "servers" : [
                        { "host" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 11211 }
                ]
        },

        "pid" : "/home/bitcoin/pushpoold.pid",

        # overrides local hostname detection
        "forcehost" : "localhost.localdomain",

        "log.requests" : "/home/bitcoin/request.log",
        "log.shares" : "/home/bitcoin/shares.log",

        # the server assumes longpolling (w/ SIGUSR1 called for each blk)
        "longpoll.disable" : false,

        # length of time to cache username/password credentials, in seconds
        "auth.cred_cache.expire" : 75,

        # RPC settings
        "rpc.url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
        "rpc.user" : "bitcoin",
        "rpc.pass" : "SWEEECRETS",

        # rewrite returned 'target' to difficulty-1?
        "rpc.target.rewrite" : true
}