Added the ability to stop an HTTPServer. Mostly for unittesting.

diff --git a/tornado/httpserver.py b/tornado/httpserver.py
index 742cfc87205c58666e32048603c66f5a6f12950c..4e5ae76834856273f94cecc9cc879e47e713c1b3 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/httpserver.py
+++ b/tornado/httpserver.py
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ class HTTPServer(object):
             io_loop.add_handler(self._socket.fileno(), self._handle_events,
                                 ioloop.IOLoop.READ)
 
+    def stop(self):
+      self.io_loop.remove_handler(self._socket.fileno())
+      self._socket.close()
+
     def _handle_events(self, fd, events):
         while True:
             try: