diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
index a5997050674..ccfed0b9f97 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
@@ -545,9 +545,7 @@ protected HttpURLConnection connect(URL url) throws IOException {
           url = new URL(conn.getHeaderField("Location"));
           redirectHost = url.getHost() + ":" + url.getPort();
         } finally {
-          // Don't call conn.disconnect() to allow connection reuse
-          // See http://tinyurl.com/java7-http-keepalive
-          conn.getInputStream().close();
+          conn.disconnect();
         }
       }
       try {
@@ -776,9 +774,7 @@ final T getResponse(HttpURLConnection conn) throws IOException {
         }
         throw ioe;
       } finally {
-        // Don't call conn.disconnect() to allow connection reuse
-        // See http://tinyurl.com/java7-http-keepalive
-        conn.getInputStream().close();
+        conn.disconnect();
       }
     }
     
@@ -824,9 +820,6 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
             try {
               validateResponse(op, conn, true);
             } finally {
-              // This is a connection to DataNode.  Let's disconnect since
-              // there is little chance that the connection will be reused
-              // any time soonl
               conn.disconnect();
             }
           }