http://bugs.python.org/issue6381

merging revision 73819 from trunk

Lib/socketserver.py

@@ -445,7 +445,12 @@ class TCPServer(BaseServer):
 
     def close_request(self, request):
         """Called to clean up an individual request."""
+        try:
+            #explicitly shutdown.  socket.close() merely releases
+            #the socket and waits for GC to perform the actual close.
             request.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR)
+        except socket.error:
+            pass #some platforms may raise ENOTCONN here
         request.close()