diff --git a/net/common/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/net/common/BasicAuthorizationInterceptor.java b/net/common/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/net/common/BasicAuthorizationInterceptor.java
index 8e7b9a4f4d..e7332b2b58 100644
--- a/net/common/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/net/common/BasicAuthorizationInterceptor.java
+++ b/net/common/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/net/common/BasicAuthorizationInterceptor.java
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ public Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
 
         Log.d(TAG, "Authorization failed, re-trying with ISO-8859-1 encoded credentials");
         newRequest.header(HEADER_AUTHORIZATION, HttpCredentialEncoder.encode(username, password, "ISO-8859-1"));
+        response.close();
         response = chain.proceed(newRequest.build());
 
         if (response.code() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED) {
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ public Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
 
         Log.d(TAG, "Authorization failed, re-trying with UTF-8 encoded credentials");
         newRequest.header(HEADER_AUTHORIZATION, HttpCredentialEncoder.encode(username, password, "UTF-8"));
+        response.close();
         return chain.proceed(newRequest.build());
     }
 }