diff --git a/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/DisconnectTest.java b/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/DisconnectTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db8421410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/DisconnectTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Square, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http;
+
+import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient;
+import com.squareup.okhttp.mockwebserver.MockResponse;
+import com.squareup.okhttp.mockwebserver.MockWebServer;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+
+public final class DisconnectTest {
+  private final MockWebServer server = new MockWebServer();
+  private final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
+
+  @Test public void interruptWritingRequestBody() throws Exception {
+    int requestBodySize = 2 * 1024 * 1024; // 2 MiB
+
+    server.enqueue(new MockResponse()
+        .throttleBody(64 * 1024, 125, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)); // 500 Kbps
+    server.play();
+
+    HttpURLConnection connection = client.open(server.getUrl("/"));
+    disconnectLater(connection, 500);
+
+    connection.setDoOutput(true);
+    connection.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(requestBodySize);
+    OutputStream requestBody = connection.getOutputStream();
+    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
+    try {
+      for (int i = 0; i < requestBodySize; i += buffer.length) {
+        requestBody.write(buffer);
+        requestBody.flush();
+      }
+      fail("Expected connection to be closed");
+    } catch (IOException expected) {
+    }
+
+    connection.disconnect();
+  }
+
+  @Test public void interruptReadingResponseBody() throws Exception {
+    int responseBodySize = 2 * 1024 * 1024; // 2 MiB
+
+    server.enqueue(new MockResponse()
+        .setBody(new byte[responseBodySize])
+        .throttleBody(64 * 1024, 125, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)); // 500 Kbps
+    server.play();
+
+    HttpURLConnection connection = client.open(server.getUrl("/"));
+    disconnectLater(connection, 500);
+
+    InputStream responseBody = connection.getInputStream();
+    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
+    try {
+      while (responseBody.read(buffer) != -1) {
+      }
+      fail("Expected connection to be closed");
+    } catch (IOException expected) {
+    }
+
+    connection.disconnect();
+  }
+
+  private void disconnectLater(final HttpURLConnection connection, final int delayMillis) {
+    Thread interruptingCow = new Thread() {
+      @Override public void run() {
+        try {
+          sleep(delayMillis);
+          connection.disconnect();
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+          throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+      }
+    };
+    interruptingCow.start();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/URLConnectionTest.java b/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/URLConnectionTest.java
index de3bd1b0a..83266d26c 100644
--- a/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/URLConnectionTest.java
+++ b/okhttp-tests/src/test/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/URLConnectionTest.java
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
@@ -942,7 +943,9 @@ public final class URLConnectionTest {
   }
 
   @Test public void disconnectedConnection() throws IOException {
-    server.enqueue(new MockResponse().setBody("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR"));
+    server.enqueue(new MockResponse()
+        .throttleBody(2, 100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
+        .setBody("ABCD"));
     server.play();
 
     connection = client.open(server.getUrl("/"));
@@ -950,6 +953,10 @@ public final class URLConnectionTest {
     assertEquals('A', (char) in.read());
     connection.disconnect();
     try {
+      // Reading 'B' may succeed if it's buffered.
+      in.read();
+
+      // But 'C' shouldn't be buffered (the response is throttled) and this should fail.
       in.read();
       fail("Expected a connection closed exception");
     } catch (IOException expected) {
@@ -1230,11 +1237,13 @@ public final class URLConnectionTest {
     HttpURLConnection connection1 = client.open(server.getUrl("/"));
     InputStream in1 = connection1.getInputStream();
     assertEquals("ABCDE", readAscii(in1, 5));
+    in1.close();
     connection1.disconnect();
 
     HttpURLConnection connection2 = client.open(server.getUrl("/"));
     InputStream in2 = connection2.getInputStream();
     assertEquals("LMNOP", readAscii(in2, 5));
+    in2.close();
     connection2.disconnect();
 
     assertEquals(0, server.takeRequest().getSequenceNumber());
diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpConnection.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpConnection.java
index e3f1c45d2..aa1c23ee3 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpConnection.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpConnection.java
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ public final class HttpConnection {
     return state == STATE_CLOSED;
   }
 
+  public void closeIfOwnedBy(Object owner) throws IOException {
+    connection.closeIfOwnedBy(owner);
+  }
+
   public void flush() throws IOException {
     sink.flush();
   }
diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpEngine.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpEngine.java
index 93d6583b8..526777490 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpEngine.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpEngine.java
@@ -384,6 +384,18 @@ public class HttpEngine {
     connection = null;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Immediately closes the socket connection if it's currently held by this
+   * engine. Use this to interrupt an in-flight request from any thread. It's
+   * the caller's responsibility to close the request body and response body
+   * streams; otherwise resources may be leaked.
+   */
+  public final void disconnect() throws IOException {
+    if (transport != null) {
+      transport.disconnect(this);
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Release any resources held by this engine. If a connection is still held by
    * this engine, it is returned.
diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpTransport.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpTransport.java
index 026e6589f..c41a244a5 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpTransport.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpTransport.java
@@ -148,4 +148,8 @@ public final class HttpTransport implements Transport {
     // reference escapes.
     return httpConnection.newUnknownLengthSource(cacheRequest);
   }
+
+  @Override public void disconnect(HttpEngine engine) throws IOException {
+    httpConnection.closeIfOwnedBy(engine);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpURLConnectionImpl.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpURLConnectionImpl.java
index 024f0fee6..e57545bdb 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpURLConnectionImpl.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/HttpURLConnectionImpl.java
@@ -106,9 +106,18 @@ public class HttpURLConnectionImpl extends HttpURLConnection {
 
   @Override public final void disconnect() {
     // Calling disconnect() before a connection exists should have no effect.
-    if (httpEngine != null) {
-      httpEngine.close();
+    if (httpEngine == null) return;
+
+    try {
+      httpEngine.disconnect();
+    } catch (IOException ignored) {
     }
+
+    // This doesn't close the stream because doing so would require all stream
+    // access to be synchronized. It's expected that the thread using the
+    // connection will close its streams directly. If it doesn't, the worst
+    // case is that the GzipSource's Inflater won't be released until it's
+    // finalized. (This logs a warning on Android.)
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/SpdyTransport.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/SpdyTransport.java
index 2327153ba..6b54a10e8 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/SpdyTransport.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/SpdyTransport.java
@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@ public final class SpdyTransport implements Transport {
   @Override public void releaseConnectionOnIdle() {
   }
 
+  @Override public void disconnect(HttpEngine engine) throws IOException {
+    stream.close(ErrorCode.CANCEL);
+  }
+
   @Override public boolean canReuseConnection() {
     return true; // TODO: spdyConnection.isClosed() ?
   }
diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/Transport.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/Transport.java
index 81ddc0f5a..3a96c6022 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/Transport.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/internal/http/Transport.java
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ interface Transport {
    */
   void releaseConnectionOnIdle() throws IOException;
 
+  void disconnect(HttpEngine engine) throws IOException;
+
   /**
    * Returns true if the socket connection held by this transport can be reused
    * for a follow-up exchange.