diff --git a/swiftclient/client.py b/swiftclient/client.py
index d843aecc..049b4afc 100644
--- a/swiftclient/client.py
+++ b/swiftclient/client.py
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ class HTTPConnection(object):
         self.request_session = requests.Session()
         # Don't use requests's default headers
         self.request_session.headers = None
+        self.resp = None
         if self.parsed_url.scheme not in ('http', 'https'):
             raise ClientException('Unsupported scheme "%s" in url "%s"'
                                   % (self.parsed_url.scheme, url))
@@ -506,6 +507,11 @@ class HTTPConnection(object):
 
         return self.resp
 
+    def close(self):
+        if self.resp:
+            self.resp.close()
+        self.request_session.close()
+
 
 def http_connection(*arg, **kwarg):
     """:returns: tuple of (parsed url, connection object)"""
@@ -527,6 +533,8 @@ def get_auth_1_0(url, user, key, snet, **kwargs):
     conn.request(method, parsed.path, '', headers)
     resp = conn.getresponse()
     body = resp.read()
+    resp.close()
+    conn.close()
     http_log((url, method,), headers, resp, body)
     url = resp.getheader('x-storage-url')
 
@@ -1651,11 +1659,8 @@ class Connection(object):
         if (self.http_conn and isinstance(self.http_conn, tuple)
                 and len(self.http_conn) > 1):
             conn = self.http_conn[1]
-            if hasattr(conn, 'close') and callable(conn.close):
-                # XXX: Our HTTPConnection object has no close, should be
-                # trying to close the requests.Session here?
-                conn.close()
-                self.http_conn = None
+            conn.close()
+            self.http_conn = None
 
     def get_auth(self):
         self.url, self.token = get_auth(self.authurl, self.user, self.key,
@@ -1715,10 +1720,10 @@ class Connection(object):
             try:
                 if not self.url or not self.token:
                     self.url, self.token = self.get_auth()
-                    self.http_conn = None
+                    self.close()
                 if self.service_auth and not self.service_token:
                     self.url, self.service_token = self.get_service_auth()
-                    self.http_conn = None
+                    self.close()
                 self.auth_end_time = time()
                 if not self.http_conn:
                     self.http_conn = self.http_connection()
@@ -1908,8 +1913,7 @@ class Connection(object):
         url = url or self.url
         if not url:
             url, _ = self.get_auth()
-        scheme = urlparse(url).scheme
-        netloc = urlparse(url).netloc
-        url = scheme + '://' + netloc + '/info'
-        http_conn = self.http_connection(url)
-        return get_capabilities(http_conn)
+        parsed = urlparse(urljoin(url, '/info'))
+        if not self.http_conn:
+            self.http_conn = self.http_connection(url)
+        return get_capabilities((parsed, self.http_conn[1]))
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_swiftclient.py b/tests/functional/test_swiftclient.py
index 0380d961..1d76a8d1 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test_swiftclient.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_swiftclient.py
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
                 self.conn.delete_container(container)
             except swiftclient.ClientException:
                 pass
+        self.conn.close()
 
     def _check_account_headers(self, headers):
         headers_to_check = [
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_swiftclient.py b/tests/unit/test_swiftclient.py
index f1147748..62875a5d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_swiftclient.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_swiftclient.py
@@ -2532,6 +2532,9 @@ class TestConnection(MockHttpTest):
             def read(self, *args, **kwargs):
                 return ''
 
+            def close(self):
+                pass
+
         def local_http_connection(url, proxy=None, cacert=None,
                                   insecure=False, cert=None, cert_key=None,
                                   ssl_compression=True, timeout=None):
@@ -2901,6 +2904,9 @@ class TestCloseConnection(MockHttpTest):
         self.assertIsNone(conn.http_conn)
         conn.close()
         self.assertIsNone(conn.http_conn)
+        # Can re-close
+        conn.close()
+        self.assertIsNone(conn.http_conn)
 
     def test_close_ok(self):
         url = 'http://www.test.com'
@@ -2911,7 +2917,7 @@ class TestCloseConnection(MockHttpTest):
         self.assertEqual(len(conn.http_conn), 2)
         http_conn_obj = conn.http_conn[1]
         self.assertIsInstance(http_conn_obj, c.HTTPConnection)
-        self.assertFalse(hasattr(http_conn_obj, 'close'))
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(http_conn_obj, 'close'))
         conn.close()
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/utils.py b/tests/unit/utils.py
index aab3b59c..8081501f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/utils.py
+++ b/tests/unit/utils.py
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ class StubResponse(object):
         self.body = body
         self.headers = headers or {}
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '%s(%r, %r, %r)' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.status,
+                                   self.body, self.headers)
+
 
 def fake_http_connect(*code_iter, **kwargs):
     """
@@ -102,7 +106,6 @@ def fake_http_connect(*code_iter, **kwargs):
             self.etag = etag
             self.content = self.body = body
             self.timestamp = timestamp
-            self._is_closed = True
             self.headers = headers or {}
             self.request = None
 
@@ -162,6 +165,9 @@ def fake_http_connect(*code_iter, **kwargs):
         def getheader(self, name, default=None):
             return dict(self.getheaders()).get(name.lower(), default)
 
+        def close(self):
+            pass
+
     timestamps_iter = iter(kwargs.get('timestamps') or ['1'] * len(code_iter))
     etag_iter = iter(kwargs.get('etags') or [None] * len(code_iter))
     x = kwargs.get('missing_container', [False] * len(code_iter))
@@ -228,7 +234,8 @@ class MockHttpTest(unittest.TestCase):
                 parsed, _conn = _orig_http_connection(url, proxy=proxy)
 
                 class RequestsWrapper(object):
-                    pass
+                    def close(self):
+                        pass
                 conn = RequestsWrapper()
 
                 def request(method, path, *args, **kwargs):