From 6fd82b337f92835bf06140162040d76c05eb5214 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:40:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixup: do not close the response before anchor-checking has
 been performed

---
 sphinx/builders/linkcheck.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sphinx/builders/linkcheck.py b/sphinx/builders/linkcheck.py
index 694b6fc2440..22aa2a58a3c 100644
--- a/sphinx/builders/linkcheck.py
+++ b/sphinx/builders/linkcheck.py
@@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ def check_uri() -> tuple[str, str, int]:
                     # Read the whole document and see if #anchor exists
                     response = requests.get(req_url, stream=True, config=self.config,
                                             auth=auth_info, **kwargs)
-                    response.close()  # no HTTP body reads required; close the response
                     response.raise_for_status()
                     found = check_anchor(response, unquote(anchor))
+                    response.close()  # HTTP body reads complete; close the response
 
                     if not found:
                         raise Exception(__("Anchor '%s' not found") % anchor)