diff --git a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/StreamResponse.java b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/StreamResponse.java
index d52614e4f..d8a1e9267 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/StreamResponse.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/StreamResponse.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 package net.yacy.crawler.retrieval;
 
+import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ import net.yacy.document.TextParser;
 /**
  * A crawler load response, holding content as a stream.
  */
-public class StreamResponse {
+public class StreamResponse implements Closeable {
 
 	/** Logger */
 	private final static ConcurrentLog log = new ConcurrentLog(StreamResponse.class.getSimpleName());
@@ -79,6 +80,13 @@ public class StreamResponse {
 	public Response getResponse() {
 		return this.response;
 	}
+	
+	@Override
+	public void close() throws IOException {
+		if(this.contentStream != null) {
+			this.contentStream.close();
+		}
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Parse and close the content stream and return the parsed documents when