#
# WSGI Proxy into the bitcoind daemon (which only listens on 127.0.0.1 for security).
# Rejects non-HTTPs connections, or non-POST requests
# Rejects queries that don't include a pre-shared secret value
# 
# Apache calls this because of a directive in /etc/apache2/sites-available/xyz.com
#

import hashlib
import urllib2

def application(environ, start_response):
  serverURL = "http://127.0.0.1:8332/"

  def error_response(message):
    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
            ('Content-Length', str(len(message)))]
    start_response('500 Internal Server error', response_headers)
    return message

  if environ.get("HTTPS") != "1":
    return error_response("Insecure connections not allowed.")

  request = environ.get("wsgi.input").read()
  secret = request[0:32]
  json_request = request[32:]

  if hashlib.md5(" pre shared secret goes here "+json_request).hexdigest() != secret:
    return error_response("Authentication failed.")

  req = urllib2.Request(serverURL, json_request)
  response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
  json_response = response.read()

  status = '200 OK'

  response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
            ('Content-Length', str(len(json_response)))]
  start_response(status, response_headers)

  return [json_response]

import hashlib
import jsonrpc
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

def make_bitcoin_request(server_url, server_secret, method, params):
  json_request = {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": str(time.time()),
    "method": method, "params": params
    } 
  
  json_string = jsonrpc.dumps(json_request)
  secret = hashlib.md5(server_secret+json_string).hexdigest()
  
  try:
    fetch_result = urlfetch.fetch(payment_server,
                                  method="POST", payload=secret+json_string,
                                  headers={ 'Content-Type' : 'text/plain' })
  except urlfetch.Error, e:
    logging.error('make_bitcoin_request failed: '+str(e))
    logging.error('Request:'+json_string)
    return None
  
  if fetch_result.status_code != 200:
    logging.error('make_bitcoin_request failed; urlfetch status code %d'%(fetch_result.status_code))
    logging.error('Request:'+json_string)
    return None

  r = jsonrpc.loads(fetch_result.content)
  if r['error'] is not None:
    logging.error('make_bitcoin_request failed; JSON error returned')
    logging.error('Request:'+json_string)
    logging.error('Result:'+fetch_result.content)
    return None

  return r['result']

If you want to build bitcoind, the no-gui bitcoin daemon, you need the wxWidgets 'base' library.
After untarring the wxWidgets source:

cd /usr/local/wxWidgets-2.9.0
mkdir buildbase
cd buildbase
../configure --disable-gui --enable-debug --disable-shared --enable-monolithic
make
sudo su
make install
ldconfig