From b6ea32d35d3a2b6692aa855e9679aefab4ecc2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed El-Hassany <ahassany@indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:23:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Better connection check in RequestHandler

---
 tornado/web.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tornado/web.py b/tornado/web.py
index b90324f9..fa1fcd55 100644
--- a/tornado/web.py
+++ b/tornado/web.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
         self.ui["modules"] = self.ui["_modules"]
         self.clear()
         # Check since connection is not available in WSGI
-        if hasattr(self.request, "connection"):
+        if getattr(self.request, "connection", None):
             self.request.connection.stream.set_close_callback(
                 self.on_connection_close)
         self.initialize(**kwargs)