OkHttpClient close connection

Question

I'd like to use OkHttpClient to load a url, and if the website at the given url responds with a pdf content type I will go ahead and download the PDF, otherwise I want to ignore the response.

My question is, do I need to do anything special to close the request/response or do I need to do anything to indicate that i won't be using the response if I choose to not read the response bytestream? If not, when does OkHttpClient close the connection?

Answer 1

Calling response.body().close() will release all resources held by the response. The connection pool will keep the connection open, but that'll get closed automatically after a timeout if it goes unused.