diff --git a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/FileLoader.java b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/FileLoader.java
index cf0b683e7..12e809914 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/FileLoader.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/FileLoader.java
@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ public class FileLoader {
         // load the resource
         InputStream is = url.getInputStream(ClientIdentification.yacyInternetCrawlerAgent, null, null);
         byte[] b = FileUtils.read(is);
-        is.close();
 
         // create response with loaded content
         final CrawlProfile profile = this.sb.crawler.get(ASCII.getBytes(request.profileHandle()));
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/SMBLoader.java b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/SMBLoader.java
index 67e3fdee1..8de78c8b0 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/SMBLoader.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/SMBLoader.java
@@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ public class SMBLoader {
         // load the resource
         InputStream is = url.getInputStream(ClientIdentification.yacyInternetCrawlerAgent, null, null);
         byte[] b = FileUtils.read(is);
-        is.close();
 
         // create response with loaded content
         final CrawlProfile profile = this.sb.crawler.get(request.profileHandle().getBytes());
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/kelondro/util/FileUtils.java b/source/net/yacy/kelondro/util/FileUtils.java
index 37e7b94d9..4e78cb69f 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/kelondro/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/kelondro/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -268,8 +268,24 @@ public final class FileUtils {
         copy(new ByteArrayInputStream(source), dest);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Read fully source stream and close it.
+     * @param source must not be null
+     * @return source content as a byte array.
+     * @throws IOException when a read/write error occured
+     */
     public static byte[] read(final InputStream source) throws IOException {
-        return read(source, -1);
+    	byte[] content;
+    	try {
+    		content = read(source, -1);
+    	} finally {
+    		/* source input stream must be closed here in all cases */
+    		try {
+    			source.close();
+    		} catch(IOException ignoredException) {
+    		}
+    	}
+    	return content;
     }
 
     public static byte[] read(final InputStream source, final int count) throws IOException {