Index: Lib/socketserver.py
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--- Lib/socketserver.py	(revision 67428)
+++ Lib/socketserver.py	(working copy)
@@ -656,6 +656,10 @@
             self.wfile.flush()
         self.wfile.close()
         self.rfile.close()
+        # http://bugs.python.org/issue3826 - We need to explicitly close the
+        # socket rather than wait for garbage collection to do it.
+        del self.wfile, self.rfile
+        self.request.close()
 
 
 class DatagramRequestHandler(BaseRequestHandler):