Problem and Solution:
It turns out that Python’s BaseHTTPRequestHandler was trying to log the fully qualified domain name of each request’s IP address. Thus when we connected from machines that didn’t have a fully qualified domain name, it would take a long time to not find the FQDN. There is actually a bug for this.

Below is a simple fix that solved the problem for me (in Python 2.4). This would probably work in future versions too.

Assume this is your basic XMLRPC Server set up in Python:

import SimpleXMLRPCServer

class FuncGroup:
    """Just hold the funcs to be used in web service"""
    def hi(self,val):
        return "hi there"

#create server and start it
server_address = ('localhost',8000) # (address, port)
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(server_address)
server.register_instance(FuncGroup()) #reg. functions/class instance
server.serve_forever()

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Here is the fixed version. I added in an override for the trouble function:
—

import SimpleXMLRPCServer

#new code
import BaseHTTPServer
def not_insane_address_string(self):
    host, port = self.client_address[:2]
    return '%s (no getfqdn)' % host #used to call: socket.getfqdn(host)
BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.address_string = \
    not_insane_address_string
#end new code

class FuncGroup:
    """Just hold the funcs to be used in web service"""
    def hi(self,val):
        return "hi there"

#create server and start it
server_address = ('localhost',8000) # (address, port)
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(server_address)
server.register_instance(FuncGroup()) #reg. functions/class instance
server.serve_forever()

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The following modules appear to be missing ... paramiko ...

And then in the log file created when I run the exe I saw this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
ImportError: No module named paramiko

This has to do with py2exe not being able to handle egg files. So what I did is pulled out the paramiko directory from the egg, and placed that in my site-packages directory, and then deleted the egg. It works now though the setup function still tells me this:

The following modules appear to be missing
['Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath', 'Crypto.Util.winrandom', '_ssl', 'r_hmac']

Luckily as far as I can tell, I don’t use those modules anywhere.

This guy had the same problem and
made some sort of programmatic solution but it didn’t work for me. Since when I ran the setup function, it didn’t throw an ImportError.

Here is a good example of set up and usage.

However in connecting to a WS FTP server, I was still hitting some problems.

When I tried to do:

sftp.get(remotepath='setup.py',localpath='setup.py')

I got:

*** IOError: Folder not found: setup.py

and when I tried:

sftp.sftp.get(remotepath='./setup.py',localpath='setup.py')

I got:

*** IOError: [Errno 13] Permission Denied!

It turns out the trick for working with WS FTP Server, you need to reference your files as current_directory/filename. (no idea why!)

So the correct command is:

sftp.sftp.get(remotepath='greg/setup.py',localpath='setup.py')

where greg is my current working directory (yes, even though I’m already in that directory!)

C:\Documents and Settings\gpinero>easy_install paramiko
Searching for paramiko
Best match: paramiko 1.7.4
Processing paramiko-1.7.4-py2.4.egg
paramiko 1.7.4 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using c:\python24\lib\site-packages\paramiko-1.7.4-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for paramiko
Searching for pycrypto>=1.9
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/
Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net
Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto
Best match: pycrypto 2.0.1
Downloading http://www.amk.ca/files/python/crypto/pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz
Processing pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz
Running pycrypto-2.0.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\docume~1\gpinero\loca
ls~1\temp\easy_install-gpdsc5\pycrypto-2.0.1\egg-dist-tmp-8dcze9
error: Setup script exited with error: The .NET Framework SDK needs to be instal
led before building extensions for Python.

I heard it’s a bear to install the .NET framework SDK, and supposedly the install still won’t work. So what you do instead is download this prebuilt pycrypto binary from here, and install it.