def do_POST(self):
        """Handles the HTTPS POST request.
        It was copied out from SimpleXMLRPCServer.py and modified to shutdown the socket cleanly.
        """
        try:
            # get arguments
            data = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers["content-length"]))
            # In previous versions of SimpleXMLRPCServer, _dispatch
            # could be overridden in this class, instead of in
            # SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher. To maintain backwards compatibility,
            # check to see if a subclass implements _dispatch and dispatch
            # using that method if present.
            response = self.server._marshaled_dispatch(data, getattr(self, '_dispatch', None))
        except: # This should only happen if the module is buggy
            # internal error, report as HTTP server error
            self.send_response(500)
            self.end_headers()
        else:
            # got a valid XML RPC response
            self.send_response(200)
            self.send_header("Content-type", "text/xml")
            self.send_header("Content-length", str(len(response)))
            self.end_headers()
            self.wfile.write(response)

            # shut down the connection
            self.wfile.flush()
            self.connection.shutdown() # Modified here!
Handles the HTTPS POST request.
        It was copied out from SimpleXMLRPCServer.py and modified to shutdown the socket cleanly.
        
recipes/Python/573444_Threaded_Documenting_XML_RPC_server_over/recipe-573444.py