Here is the workaround I'm using until the code gets fixed:

import ssl

# Work around python bug #5328
def SSLSocket_makefile_fixed(self, mode='r', bufsize=-1):
    from socket import _fileobject

    self._makefile_refs += 1
    return _fileobject(self, mode, bufsize, True)

ssl.SSLSocket.makefile = SSLSocket_makefile_fixed

An alternate way to fix it is to reach in to the _fileobject wrapper and
close the underlying
implementation:

In the do_GET() method of my web server I called:

self.rfile._sock.close()
self.wfile._sock.close()

-Costa

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jonathan Hayward <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> Jonathan Hayward <jonathan.hayward@pobox.com> added the comment:
>
> Is there a workaround to close a TLS socket and its underlying socket?
>
> I was making something to use https for a simple operation, and it the
> browser acted as if the socket never closed. If I followed the close of
> the ssl socket by a close of the underlying socket, I didn't get errors,
> but the browser throbber acted as if the connection was still open.
>
> Jonathan, http://JonathansCorner.com/
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