SF bug #471720: ThreadingMixIn/TCPServer forgets close

Solved with a helper method that calls finish_request() and then
close_request().  The code is by Max Neunhöffer.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/SocketServer.py b/Lib/SocketServer.py
index 00064ba896..5128e17548 100644
--- a/Lib/SocketServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SocketServer.py
@@ -448,10 +448,15 @@ class ForkingMixIn:
 class ThreadingMixIn:
     """Mix-in class to handle each request in a new thread."""
 
+    def process_request_thread(self, request, client_address):
+        """Same as in BaseServer but as a thread."""
+        self.finish_request(request, client_address)
+        self.close_request(request)
+
     def process_request(self, request, client_address):
         """Start a new thread to process the request."""
         import threading
-        t = threading.Thread(target = self.finish_request,
+        t = threading.Thread(target = self.process_request_thread,
                              args = (request, client_address))
         t.start()