Justin,

The patch and logic is okay. We can have this is 3.3.

- I find that loop_actions as not appropriate name for the new method. It fails to give a intuitive meaning of what is supposed to do. request_action, request_action_continued or anything else which gives a meaning should be helpful.  I agree with your reasoning to provide some flexiblity for the user to override this.

- The patch lacks Documentation and tests should be added to Lib/test/test_socketserver.py.  If you can, please append the patch with these, otherwise I shall do it.

A suggestion for better method name is a must! :)

Thanks!