From 0f494fd756b1af6176e50d436258dad0455d2a95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bensynapse <118375461+bensynapse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:13:34 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] close response bodies after loading compressed HTML

---
 query.go           | 15 +++-----
 query_http_test.go | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 query_http_test.go

diff --git a/query.go b/query.go
index ab22207..cb8b337 100644
--- a/query.go
+++ b/query.go
@@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ func LoadURL(url string) (*html.Node, error) {
 
 // LoadURLWithCustomClient loads the HTML document from the specified URL. Default enabling gzip on a HTTP request.
 // Custom HTTP Client.
-func LoadURLWithClient(url string, client *http.Client)(*html.Node, error){
+func LoadURLWithClient(url string, client *http.Client) (*html.Node, error) {
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if client == nil{
+	if client == nil {
 		client = http.DefaultClient
 	}
 	// Enable gzip compression.
@@ -111,13 +111,8 @@ func LoadURLWithClient(url string, client *http.Client)(*html.Node, error){
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	var reader io.ReadCloser
-
-	defer func() {
-		if reader != nil {
-			reader.Close()
-		}
-	}()
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	var reader io.Reader
 	encoding := resp.Header.Get("Content-Encoding")
 	switch encoding {
 	case "gzip":
@@ -125,12 +120,14 @@ func LoadURLWithClient(url string, client *http.Client)(*html.Node, error){
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		defer gzipReader.Close()
 		reader = gzipReader
 	case "deflate":
 		zlibReader, err := zlib.NewReader(resp.Body)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		defer zlibReader.Close()
 		reader = zlibReader
 	case "":
 		reader = resp.Body
diff --git a/query_http_test.go b/query_http_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e588c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/query_http_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+package htmlquery
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"compress/zlib"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+type trackedResponseBody struct {
+	io.Reader
+	closes int
+}
+
+func (b *trackedResponseBody) Close() error {
+	b.closes++
+	return nil
+}
+
+type responseTransport func(*http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
+
+func (f responseTransport) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	return f(req)
+}
+
+type failedResponseReader struct{}
+
+func (failedResponseReader) Read([]byte) (int, error) {
+	return 0, io.ErrClosedPipe
+}
+
+func TestLoadURLWithClientClosesResponseBody(t *testing.T) {
+	const document = "<html><head><title>example</title></head><body>page</body></html>"
+	var gz, def bytes.Buffer
+	gw := gzip.NewWriter(&gz)
+	if _, err := io.WriteString(gw, document); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := gw.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	dw := zlib.NewWriter(&def)
+	if _, err := io.WriteString(dw, document); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := dw.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name, encoding string
+		reader         io.Reader
+		wantErr        bool
+	}{
+		{"plain", "", bytes.NewBufferString(document), false},
+		{"gzip", "gzip", bytes.NewReader(gz.Bytes()), false},
+		{"deflate", "deflate", bytes.NewReader(def.Bytes()), false},
+		{"invalid gzip", "gzip", bytes.NewBufferString("invalid"), true},
+		{"invalid deflate", "deflate", bytes.NewBufferString("invalid"), true},
+		{"unsupported encoding", "br", bytes.NewBufferString(document), true},
+		{"read failure", "", failedResponseReader{}, true},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			body := &trackedResponseBody{Reader: tc.reader}
+			client := &http.Client{Transport: responseTransport(func(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+				return &http.Response{
+					StatusCode: http.StatusOK,
+					Header: http.Header{
+						"Content-Encoding": []string{tc.encoding},
+						"Content-Type":     []string{"text/html; charset=utf-8"},
+					},
+					Body:    body,
+					Request: req,
+				}, nil
+			})}
+
+			node, err := LoadURLWithClient("https://example.invalid/page", client)
+			if (err != nil) != tc.wantErr {
+				t.Fatalf("error = %v, want error %t", err, tc.wantErr)
+			}
+			if err == nil {
+				title := FindOne(node, "//title")
+				if title == nil || InnerText(title) != "example" {
+					t.Fatal("parsed document changed")
+				}
+			}
+			if body.closes != 1 {
+				t.Errorf("response body Close calls = %d, want 1", body.closes)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}