facebook/tornado — pull request #684 by vkosh (2013-02-19 22:37:51+00:00)
Title: Remove timeout callback on errors during connect or request.

Force gc to collect _HTTPConnection object in case of exception (e.g. connection error) without waiting for timeout.
A simple code demonstrates the reference to connection object after connection refused error:
https://gist.github.com/vkosh/4990611
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