def close(self):
        """Close the socket underlying this connection."""
        self.rfile.close()
        
        if not self.linger:
            # Python's socket module does NOT call close on the kernel socket
            # when you call socket.close(). We do so manually here because we
            # want this server to send a FIN TCP segment immediately. Note this
            # must be called *before* calling socket.close(), because the latter
            # drops its reference to the kernel socket.
            if hasattr(self.socket, '_sock'):
                self.socket._sock.close()
            self.socket.close()
        else:
            # On the other hand, sometimes we want to hang around for a bit
            # to make sure the client has a chance to read our entire
            # response. Skipping the close() calls here delays the FIN
            # packet until the socket object is garbage-collected later.
            # Someday, perhaps, we'll do the full lingering_close that
            # Apache does, but not today.
            pass
Close the socket underlying this connection.