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I'm implementing simple server which should accept connection from client, receive and send data from some time (e.g. couple of minutes) then close connection and accept another connection.

I defined handler and server classes as follows

import time
import socketserver


class MyHandler(socketserver.BaseRequestHandler):

    def handle(self):
        print('{} - Incoming connection from {}'.format(time.strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', time.localtime()), self.client_address))

        data = self.request.recv(8192)
        self.request.sendall(data)


class MyServer(socketserver.TCPServer):
    timeout = 3

    def __init__(self, serverAddress, RequestHandlerClass):
        socketserver.TCPServer.__init__(self, serverAddress, RequestHandlerClass)

    def handle_timeout(self):
        print('{} - Timeout'.format(time.strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', time.localtime())))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    server = MyServer(('localhost', 9999), MyHandler)
    print("Server started.")

    try:
        server.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass
    finally:
        server.shutdown()
        server.server_close()
        print("Server stopped.")

After starting server, I connected to it and waited for some time. I expected that after 3 second of inactivity connection will be closed, but it remains active. What I'm doing wrong, how to accept serve each connection only for predefined time?

Thanks