diff --git a/openstack/objectstorage/v1/objects/results.go b/openstack/objectstorage/v1/objects/results.go
index 97a6f91..97020df 100644
--- a/openstack/objectstorage/v1/objects/results.go
+++ b/openstack/objectstorage/v1/objects/results.go
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 // DownloadResult is a *http.Response that is returned from a call to the Download function.
 type DownloadResult struct {
 	commonResult
-	Body io.Reader
+	Body io.ReadCloser
 }
 
 // ExtractContent is a function that takes a DownloadResult's io.Reader body
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	dr.Body.Close()
 	return body, nil
 }