The server in the wsgiref module is actually used a lot. For example, it is the server Django uses for development.

A very common thing that happens during Django development is that the web browser closes the connection for some reason. Then very long stack traces appear in the Django logs:

    [30/Aug/2018 12:10:38] "POST /login/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3964
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 138, in run
        self.finish_response()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 180, in finish_response
        self.write(data)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 274, in write
        self.send_headers()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 332, in send_headers
        self.send_preamble()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 255, in send_preamble
        ('Date: %s\r\n' % format_date_time(time.time())).encode('iso-8859-1')
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 453, in _write
        result = self.stdout.write(data)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\socketserver.py", line 796, in write
        self._sock.sendall(b)
    ConnectionAbortedError: [WinError 10053] An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
    [30/Aug/2018 12:10:38] "POST /login/ HTTP/1.1" 500 59
    ----------------------------------------
    Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 50112)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 138, in run
        self.finish_response()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 180, in finish_response
        self.write(data)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 274, in write
        self.send_headers()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 332, in send_headers
        self.send_preamble()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 255, in send_preamble
        ('Date: %s\r\n' % format_date_time(time.time())).encode('iso-8859-1')
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 453, in _write
        result = self.stdout.write(data)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\socketserver.py", line 796, in write
        self._sock.sendall(b)
    ConnectionAbortedError: [WinError 10053] An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 141, in run
        self.handle_error()
      File "D:\Virtualenvs\ledev-X6wd5Q8f\lib\site-packages\django\core\servers\basehttp.py", line 86, in handle_error
        super().handle_error()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 368, in handle_error
        self.finish_response()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 180, in finish_response
        self.write(data)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 274, in write
        self.send_headers()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 331, in send_headers
        if not self.origin_server or self.client_is_modern():
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 344, in client_is_modern
        return self.environ['SERVER_PROTOCOL'].upper() != 'HTTP/0.9'
    TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "d:\python37\Lib\socketserver.py", line 647, in process_request_thread
        self.finish_request(request, client_address)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\socketserver.py", line 357, in finish_request
        self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
      File "d:\python37\Lib\socketserver.py", line 717, in __init__
        self.handle()
      File "D:\Virtualenvs\ledev-X6wd5Q8f\lib\site-packages\django\core\servers\basehttp.py", line 154, in handle
        handler.run(self.server.get_app())
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 144, in run
        self.close()
      File "d:\python37\Lib\wsgiref\simple_server.py", line 35, in close
        self.status.split(' ',1)[0], self.bytes_sent
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
    ----------------------------------------


Obviously, this is a bit annoying when developing with Django daily. Since Django simply uses the wsgiref server, I though the best solution was to handle closed connections more gracefully there.

I think the best solution is to simply add another except clause here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e6dac0077996b1e1f886f036d6f2606237fa4c85/Lib/wsgiref/handlers.py#L142 . We should catch ConnectionAbortedError here and return from the function.

I am happy to create a PR if this is what we want to do.