Close connection after each request, avoid NSS shutdown problem.

The unit tests were failing when executed against an Apache server
in F-18 due to dangling references causing NSS shutdown to fail.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3180

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipapython/nsslib.py b/ipapython/nsslib.py
index 06bcba648..7afccd568 100644
--- a/ipapython/nsslib.py
+++ b/ipapython/nsslib.py
@@ -238,6 +238,12 @@ class NSSConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection, NSSAddressFamilyFallback):
     def connect(self):
         self.connect_socket(self.host, self.port)
 
+    def close(self):
+        """Close the connection to the HTTP server."""
+        if self.sock:
+            self.sock.close()   # close it manually... there may be other refs
+            self.sock = None
+
     def endheaders(self, message=None):
         """
         Explicitly close the connection if an error is returned after the