Developer get into a habit of calling flush() after writing something which must be sent.
IMHO Using flush() then close() is common when there has just been a write e.g.
// write a message
out.write(buffer, 0, size);
out.flush();
// finished
out.close();
As you can see the flush() is redundant, but means you are following a pattern.
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