What does FIN_WAIT1 mean?

When I send a HTTPS request from Windows7/Vista to Linux Red Hat 4 the netstat -an <my_ip> command shows 开发者_C百科FIN_WAIT1 OR SYNC_RECV status.

Why do these statuses appear instead of ESTABLISHED?

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The TCP connection is closing, see http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Course/Section4/11.htm

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What does FIN_WAIT1 mean?: The TCP connection is closing

I have a Python example to show the flow:

1. I put my server to listen for connections:

>>> import sys, socket
>>> sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>>> sock.bind(('172.31.35.6', 6677))
>>> sock.listen()
>>> conn, client_address = sock.accept()

2. I connect the client to the server

>>> import sys, socket
>>> conn = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>>> conn.connect(('3.19.54.89', 6677))

3. Connection is ESTABLISHED

root@ip-172-31-35-6:/home/ubuntu# netstat | grep 6677
tcp        0      0 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:54944 ESTABLISHED

4. Log the netstat status while closing the connection:

root@ip-172-31-35-6:/home/ubuntu# while true; do netstat | grep 6677; done > ~/tmp

5. Close the connection

>>> conn.close()

6. Look at the netstat log created in step 4:

tcp        0      0 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      1 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT1  
tcp        0      0 ip-172-31-35-6.us-:6677 cpea84e3ff37803-c:55037 FIN_WAIT2