diff --git a/src/client/httplibs/juliaweb_http.jl b/src/client/httplibs/juliaweb_http.jl
index 57a5759..7db730b 100644
--- a/src/client/httplibs/juliaweb_http.jl
+++ b/src/client/httplibs/juliaweb_http.jl
@@ -290,10 +290,16 @@ function _http_streaming_request(ctx, method, url, headers, body, timeout, bytes
         open_kwargs = merge(open_kwargs, (; verbose=get(ctx.client.clntoptions, :verbose, false)))
     end
 
+    # Capture the streaming connection so the abort-on-close watcher below can
+    # unblock the read task when the consumer closes `stream_to`. (Mirrors the
+    # `:downloads` backend, which interrupts its download task on channel close.)
+    io_ref = Ref{Any}(nothing)
+
     @sync begin
-        @async begin
+        read_task = @async begin
             try
                 HTTP.open(method, url, headers; open_kwargs...) do io
+                    io_ref[] = io
                     write(io, body)
                     captured_response[] = http_response = startread(io)
                     try
@@ -311,7 +317,15 @@ function _http_streaming_request(ctx, method, url, headers, body, timeout, bytes
                 end
             catch ex
                 close(output)
-                rethrow(ex)
+                # When the consumer closes `stream_to`, the watcher task below aborts
+                # this read (close(io) + a scheduled InterruptException); that surfaces
+                # here as an IO error or InterruptException. Swallow it so the streaming
+                # request returns normally instead of propagating a spurious error. A
+                # read timeout or genuine network error arrives while `stream_to` is
+                # still open (and is not our InterruptException), so it still throws.
+                if isopen(stream_to) && !isa(ex, InterruptException)
+                    rethrow(ex)
+                end
             end
         end
 
@@ -337,6 +351,45 @@ function _http_streaming_request(ctx, method, url, headers, body, timeout, bytes
                 close(stream_to)
             end
         end
+
+        @async begin
+            # Abort-on-close watcher: when the consumer closes `stream_to` (e.g. a
+            # k8s watch is stopped via `close(stream)`), abort the read task above so
+            # it unblocks immediately instead of hanging on the socket until the
+            # read-idle timeout. Mirrors the `:downloads` backend, which interrupts
+            # its download task on channel close.
+            try
+                while isopen(stream_to)
+                    wait(stream_to)
+                    yield()
+                end
+            catch ex
+                isa(ex, InvalidStateException) || rethrow(ex)
+            end
+            # Best-effort close of the connection. On HTTP/2 this alone does NOT wake a
+            # body read parked on the flow-control timer, so we also forcibly interrupt
+            # the read task (as `:downloads` does for non-interruptible downloads).
+            io = io_ref[]
+            # `io` may be `nothing` if the consumer closed before the connection was
+            # established; in practice a consumer only stops after receiving an event
+            # (or a timer fires seconds later), so the connection is already up. This
+            # is the same theoretical hole the `:downloads` watcher has.
+            if io !== nothing
+                try
+                    close(io)
+                catch
+                    # already closed / natural EOF — nothing to abort
+                end
+            end
+            # `stream_to` also closes on natural EOF (the chunk reader closes it after
+            # the read task finishes); the `istaskdone` guard skips the interrupt in
+            # that case. For JuliaRun's watch consumers an interrupt of an already-
+            # finishing read is harmless anyway — it maps to `is_request_interrupted`,
+            # the same signal a read-idle timeout produces, which they already retry on.
+            if !istaskdone(read_task)
+                schedule(read_task, InterruptException(); error=true)
+            end
+        end
     end
 
     return http_response, output