********** requirements
requires cherrypy 3.x:
. available in f14 with
yum install python-cherrypy
. available in macos with
sudo port install py26-cherrypy3

note that running https requires the OpenSSL module as well
. f14
yum install pyOpenSSL
. macos
???

********** SSL
on my devel box I created a fake cert using
. openssl req -new -x509 -days 120 -set_serial $RANDOM -batch -subj "/CN=zankai.inria.fr" -nodes -keyout zankai.key -out zankai.crt

worked like a charm 

********** xmlrpc
http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/BuiltinTools#tools.xmlrpc
http://tools.cherrypy.org/wiki/XmlRpcIntrospection