jrodman2 added the comment:
shutdown isn't the same as close.
I'm not sure that's correct behavior in BaseHTTPServer depending upon whether
it wants to keep the door open to weird pipeline behaviors.
Honestly, I'm having to read through tcp/ip illustrated because of this
New submission from jrodman2 :
Behavior exists in at least Python 2.5 through 3.1.
The issue regards the socketserver's handling of the tcp sockets it works with.
On object reaping, the sockets are properly closed (in some versions
explicitly, in others implicitly). However, clos
