bitcoind on a separate machine using SSL

We are running bitcoind on a separate server and using SSL. This modifies the config to pick-up the host and port from the bitcoin.conf file.

I also changed the default account from "" to "*" to allow for multiple accounts in the same wallet, but the balance retrieved should be for the entire spendable balance, not just the balance in a single account.
I think this should default to true, and be configurable in bitcoindConf.