diff --git a/src/main/java/hudson/remoting/Checksum.java b/src/main/java/hudson/remoting/Checksum.java
index fd6a9d164..360cf6bf6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/hudson/remoting/Checksum.java
+++ b/src/main/java/hudson/remoting/Checksum.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import java.io.DataInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.security.DigestOutputStream;
@@ -74,8 +75,10 @@ static Checksum forFile(File file) throws IOException {
     static Checksum forURL(URL url) throws IOException {
         try {
             MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(JarLoaderImpl.DIGEST_ALGORITHM);
-            Util.copy(url.openStream(), new DigestOutputStream(new NullOutputStream(), md));
-            return new Checksum(md.digest(), md.getDigestLength() / 8);
+            try(InputStream istsream = url.openStream(); OutputStream ostream = new DigestOutputStream(new NullOutputStream(), md)) {
+                Util.copy(istsream, ostream);
+                return new Checksum(md.digest(), md.getDigestLength() / 8);
+            }
         } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
             throw new AssertionError(e);
         }