From f2373121d03b7297ac920c5b22e4e90bb4d1f566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:36:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] noticed little DoS behavior and lots of connections in
 netstat (best way to deal with zombie connections is to explicitly close them
 if not needed any more)

---
 lib/request/connect.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/request/connect.py b/lib/request/connect.py
index 7d83fce0d..fb25e525a 100644
--- a/lib/request/connect.py
+++ b/lib/request/connect.py
@@ -231,6 +231,14 @@ class Connect:
             responseHeaders = conn.info()
             page = decodePage(page, responseHeaders.get("Content-Encoding"), responseHeaders.get("Content-Type"))
 
+            # Explicit closing of connection object
+            if not conf.keepAlive:
+                try:
+                    conn.close()
+                except Exception, msg:
+                    warnMsg = "problem occured during connection closing ('%s')" % msg
+                    logger.warn(warnMsg)
+
         except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
             code = e.code
             status = e.msg