diff --git a/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb b/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb
index 9530ad9f3..957a2cbc9 100644
--- a/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ module JsonLdHelper
   end
 
   def fetch_resource_without_id_validation(uri)
-    response = build_request(uri).perform
-    return if response.code != 200
-    body_to_json(response.to_s)
+    build_request(uri).perform do |response|
+      response.code == 200 ? body_to_json(response.to_s) : nil
+    end
   end
 
   def body_to_json(body)
diff --git a/app/lib/provider_discovery.rb b/app/lib/provider_discovery.rb
index 5732e4fcb..bbd3a2d43 100644
--- a/app/lib/provider_discovery.rb
+++ b/app/lib/provider_discovery.rb
@@ -13,15 +13,14 @@ class ProviderDiscovery < OEmbed::ProviderDiscovery
     def discover_provider(url, **options)
       format = options[:format]
 
-      if options[:html]
-        html = Nokogiri::HTML(options[:html])
-      else
-        res = Request.new(:get, url).perform
-
-        raise OEmbed::NotFound, url if res.code != 200 || res.mime_type != 'text/html'
-
-        html = Nokogiri::HTML(res.to_s)
-      end
+      html = if options[:html]
+               Nokogiri::HTML(options[:html])
+             else
+               Request.new(:get, url).perform do |res|
+                 raise OEmbed::NotFound, url if res.code != 200 || res.mime_type != 'text/html'
+                 Nokogiri::HTML(res.to_s)
+               end
+             end
 
       if format.nil? || format == :json
         provider_endpoint ||= html.at_xpath('//link[@type="application/json+oembed"]')&.attribute('href')&.value
diff --git a/app/lib/request.rb b/app/lib/request.rb
index 298fb9528..8a127c65f 100644
--- a/app/lib/request.rb
+++ b/app/lib/request.rb
@@ -33,9 +33,17 @@ class Request
   end
 
   def perform
-    http_client.headers(headers).public_send(@verb, @url.to_s, @options)
-  rescue => e
-    raise e.class, "#{e.message} on #{@url}", e.backtrace[0]
+    begin
+      response = http_client.headers(headers).public_send(@verb, @url.to_s, @options)
+    rescue => e
+      raise e.class, "#{e.message} on #{@url}", e.backtrace[0]
+    end
+
+    begin
+      yield response
+    ensure
+      http_client.close
+    end
   end
 
   def headers
@@ -88,7 +96,7 @@ class Request
   end
 
   def http_client
-    HTTP.timeout(:per_operation, timeout).follow(max_hops: 2)
+    @http_client ||= HTTP.timeout(:per_operation, timeout).follow(max_hops: 2)
   end
 
   class Socket < TCPSocket
diff --git a/app/models/concerns/remotable.rb b/app/models/concerns/remotable.rb
index 69685ec83..0f18c5d96 100644
--- a/app/models/concerns/remotable.rb
+++ b/app/models/concerns/remotable.rb
@@ -21,23 +21,23 @@ module Remotable
         return if !%w(http https).include?(parsed_url.scheme) || parsed_url.host.empty? || self[attribute_name] == url
 
         begin
-          response = Request.new(:get, url).perform
+          Request.new(:get, url).perform do |response|
+            next if response.code != 200
 
-          return if response.code != 200
+            matches  = response.headers['content-disposition']&.match(/filename="([^"]*)"/)
+            filename = matches.nil? ? parsed_url.path.split('/').last : matches[1]
+            basename = SecureRandom.hex(8)
+            extname = if filename.nil?
+                        ''
+                      else
+                        File.extname(filename)
+                      end
 
-          matches  = response.headers['content-disposition']&.match(/filename="([^"]*)"/)
-          filename = matches.nil? ? parsed_url.path.split('/').last : matches[1]
-          basename = SecureRandom.hex(8)
-          extname = if filename.nil?
-                      ''
-                    else
-                      File.extname(filename)
-                    end
+            send("#{attachment_name}=", StringIO.new(response.to_s))
+            send("#{attachment_name}_file_name=", basename + extname)
 
-          send("#{attachment_name}=", StringIO.new(response.to_s))
-          send("#{attachment_name}_file_name=", basename + extname)
-
-          self[attribute_name] = url if has_attribute?(attribute_name)
+            self[attribute_name] = url if has_attribute?(attribute_name)
+          end
         rescue HTTP::TimeoutError, HTTP::ConnectionError, OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError, Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError, Addressable::URI::InvalidURIError, Mastodon::HostValidationError => e
           Rails.logger.debug "Error fetching remote #{attachment_name}: #{e}"
           nil
diff --git a/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb
index c07859845..48ad5dcd3 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb
@@ -24,43 +24,44 @@ class FetchAtomService < BaseService
 
   def process(url, terminal = false)
     @url = url
-    perform_request
-    process_response(terminal)
+    perform_request { |response| process_response(response, terminal) }
   end
 
-  def perform_request
+  def perform_request(&block)
     accept = 'text/html'
     accept = 'application/activity+json, application/ld+json, application/atom+xml, ' + accept unless @unsupported_activity
 
-    @response = Request.new(:get, @url)
-                       .add_headers('Accept' => accept)
-                       .perform
+    Request.new(:get, @url).add_headers('Accept' => accept).perform(&block)
   end
 
-  def process_response(terminal = false)
-    return nil if @response.code != 200
+  def process_response(response, terminal = false)
+    return nil if response.code != 200
 
-    if @response.mime_type == 'application/atom+xml'
-      [@url, { prefetched_body: @response.to_s }, :ostatus]
-    elsif ['application/activity+json', 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'].include?(@response.mime_type)
-      json = body_to_json(@response.to_s)
+    if response.mime_type == 'application/atom+xml'
+      [@url, { prefetched_body: response.to_s }, :ostatus]
+    elsif ['application/activity+json', 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'].include?(response.mime_type)
+      json = body_to_json(response.to_s)
       if supported_context?(json) && json['type'] == 'Person' && json['inbox'].present?
-        [json['id'], { prefetched_body: @response.to_s, id: true }, :activitypub]
+        [json['id'], { prefetched_body: response.to_s, id: true }, :activitypub]
       elsif supported_context?(json) && json['type'] == 'Note'
-        [json['id'], { prefetched_body: @response.to_s, id: true }, :activitypub]
+        [json['id'], { prefetched_body: response.to_s, id: true }, :activitypub]
       else
         @unsupported_activity = true
         nil
       end
-    elsif @response['Link'] && !terminal && link_header.find_link(%w(rel alternate))
-      process_headers
-    elsif @response.mime_type == 'text/html' && !terminal
-      process_html
+    elsif !terminal
+      link_header = response['Link'] && parse_link_header(response)
+
+      if link_header&.find_link(%w(rel alternate))
+        process_link_headers(link_header)
+      elsif response.mime_type == 'text/html'
+        process_html(response)
+      end
     end
   end
 
-  def process_html
-    page = Nokogiri::HTML(@response.to_s)
+  def process_html(response)
+    page = Nokogiri::HTML(response.to_s)
 
     json_link = page.xpath('//link[@rel="alternate"]').find { |link| ['application/activity+json', 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'].include?(link['type']) }
     atom_link = page.xpath('//link[@rel="alternate"]').find { |link| link['type'] == 'application/atom+xml' }
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ class FetchAtomService < BaseService
     result
   end
 
-  def process_headers
+  def process_link_headers(link_header)
     json_link = link_header.find_link(%w(rel alternate), %w(type application/activity+json)) || link_header.find_link(%w(rel alternate), ['type', 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'])
     atom_link = link_header.find_link(%w(rel alternate), %w(type application/atom+xml))
 
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ class FetchAtomService < BaseService
     result
   end
 
-  def link_header
-    @link_header ||= LinkHeader.parse(@response['Link'].is_a?(Array) ? @response['Link'].first : @response['Link'])
+  def parse_link_header(response)
+    LinkHeader.parse(response['Link'].is_a?(Array) ? response['Link'].first : response['Link'])
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
index 8f252e64c..26deb5ecc 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
@@ -36,15 +36,24 @@ class FetchLinkCardService < BaseService
 
   def process_url
     @card ||= PreviewCard.new(url: @url)
-    res     = Request.new(:head, @url).perform
 
-    return if res.code != 405 && (res.code != 200 || res.mime_type != 'text/html')
+    failed = Request.new(:head, @url).perform do |res|
+      res.code != 405 && (res.code != 200 || res.mime_type != 'text/html')
+    end
 
-    @response = Request.new(:get, @url).perform
+    return if failed
 
-    return if @response.code != 200 || @response.mime_type != 'text/html'
+    Request.new(:get, @url).perform do |res|
+      if res.code == 200 && res.mime_type == 'text/html'
+        @html = res.to_s
+        @html_charset = res.charset
+      else
+        @html = nil
+        @html_charset = nil
+      end
+    end
 
-    @html = @response.to_s
+    return if @html.nil?
 
     attempt_oembed || attempt_opengraph
   end
@@ -118,7 +127,7 @@ class FetchLinkCardService < BaseService
     detector = CharlockHolmes::EncodingDetector.new
     detector.strip_tags = true
 
-    guess = detector.detect(@html, @response.charset)
+    guess = detector.detect(@html, @html_charset)
     page  = Nokogiri::HTML(@html, nil, guess&.fetch(:encoding, nil))
 
     if meta_property(page, 'twitter:player')
diff --git a/app/services/resolve_account_service.rb b/app/services/resolve_account_service.rb
index fd6d30605..034821dc0 100644
--- a/app/services/resolve_account_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/resolve_account_service.rb
@@ -179,11 +179,10 @@ class ResolveAccountService < BaseService
   def atom_body
     return @atom_body if defined?(@atom_body)
 
-    response = Request.new(:get, atom_url).perform
-
-    raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, response unless response.code == 200
-
-    @atom_body = response.to_s
+    @atom_body = Request.new(:get, atom_url).perform do |response|
+      raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, response unless response.code == 200
+      response.to_s
+    end
   end
 
   def actor_json
diff --git a/app/services/send_interaction_service.rb b/app/services/send_interaction_service.rb
index fabba8a3e..3419043e5 100644
--- a/app/services/send_interaction_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/send_interaction_service.rb
@@ -12,11 +12,9 @@ class SendInteractionService < BaseService
 
     return if !target_account.ostatus? || block_notification?
 
-    delivery = build_request.perform
-
-    raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, delivery unless delivery.code > 199 && delivery.code < 300
-
-    delivery.connection&.close
+    build_request.perform do |delivery|
+      raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, delivery unless delivery.code > 199 && delivery.code < 300
+    end
   end
 
   private
diff --git a/app/services/subscribe_service.rb b/app/services/subscribe_service.rb
index 2f725e2ec..2893b5410 100644
--- a/app/services/subscribe_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/subscribe_service.rb
@@ -6,21 +6,21 @@ class SubscribeService < BaseService
 
     @account        = account
     @account.secret = SecureRandom.hex
-    @response       = build_request.perform
 
-    if response_failed_permanently?
-      # We're not allowed to subscribe. Fail and move on.
-      @account.secret = ''
-      @account.save!
-    elsif response_successful?
-      # The subscription will be confirmed asynchronously.
-      @account.save!
-    else
-      # The response was either a 429 rate limit, or a 5xx error.
-      # We need to retry at a later time. Fail loudly!
-      raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, @response
+    build_request.perform do |response|
+      if response_failed_permanently? response
+        # We're not allowed to subscribe. Fail and move on.
+        @account.secret = ''
+        @account.save!
+      elsif response_successful? response
+        # The subscription will be confirmed asynchronously.
+        @account.save!
+      else
+        # The response was either a 429 rate limit, or a 5xx error.
+        # We need to retry at a later time. Fail loudly!
+        raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, response
+      end
     end
-    @response.connection&.close
   end
 
   private
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ class SubscribeService < BaseService
   end
 
   # Any response in the 3xx or 4xx range, except for 429 (rate limit)
-  def response_failed_permanently?
-    (@response.status.redirect? || @response.status.client_error?) && !@response.status.too_many_requests?
+  def response_failed_permanently?(response)
+    (response.status.redirect? || response.status.client_error?) && !response.status.too_many_requests?
   end
 
   # Any response in the 2xx range
-  def response_successful?
-    @response.status.success?
+  def response_successful?(response)
+    response.status.success?
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/services/unsubscribe_service.rb b/app/services/unsubscribe_service.rb
index 01f5c6b7a..95c1fb4fc 100644
--- a/app/services/unsubscribe_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/unsubscribe_service.rb
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ class UnsubscribeService < BaseService
     @account = account
 
     begin
-      @response = build_request.perform
-
-      Rails.logger.debug "PuSH unsubscribe for #{@account.acct} failed: #{@response.status}" unless @response.status.success?
-      @response.connection&.close
+      build_request.perform do |response|
+        Rails.logger.debug "PuSH unsubscribe for #{@account.acct} failed: #{response.status}" unless response.status.success?
+      end
     rescue HTTP::Error, OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError => e
       Rails.logger.debug "PuSH unsubscribe for #{@account.acct} failed: #{e}"
     end
diff --git a/app/workers/activitypub/delivery_worker.rb b/app/workers/activitypub/delivery_worker.rb
index 4763856ac..e6cfd0d07 100644
--- a/app/workers/activitypub/delivery_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/activitypub/delivery_worker.rb
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ class ActivityPub::DeliveryWorker
     @source_account = Account.find(source_account_id)
     @inbox_url      = inbox_url
 
-    perform_request
+    perform_request do |response|
+      raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, response unless response_successful? response
+    end
 
-    raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, @response unless response_successful?
-
-    @response.connection&.close
     failure_tracker.track_success!
   rescue => e
     failure_tracker.track_failure!
@@ -31,12 +30,12 @@ class ActivityPub::DeliveryWorker
     request.add_headers(HEADERS)
   end
 
-  def perform_request
-    @response = build_request.perform
+  def perform_request(&block)
+    build_request.perform(&block)
   end
 
-  def response_successful?
-    @response.code > 199 && @response.code < 300
+  def response_successful?(response)
+    response.code > 199 && response.code < 300
   end
 
   def failure_tracker
diff --git a/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/confirmation_worker.rb b/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/confirmation_worker.rb
index e1ccfb99c..cc2d1225b 100644
--- a/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/confirmation_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/confirmation_worker.rb
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ class Pubsubhubbub::ConfirmationWorker
   def process_confirmation
     prepare_subscription
 
-    confirm_callback
-    logger.debug "Confirming PuSH subscription for #{subscription.callback_url} with challenge #{challenge}: #{callback_response_body}"
+    callback_get_with_params
+    logger.debug "Confirming PuSH subscription for #{subscription.callback_url} with challenge #{challenge}: #{@callback_response_body}"
 
     update_subscription
   end
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class Pubsubhubbub::ConfirmationWorker
   end
 
   def response_matches_challenge?
-    callback_response_body == challenge
+    @callback_response_body == challenge
   end
 
   def subscribing?
@@ -55,16 +55,10 @@ class Pubsubhubbub::ConfirmationWorker
     mode == 'unsubscribe'
   end
 
-  def confirm_callback
-    @_confirm_callback ||= callback_get_with_params
-  end
-
   def callback_get_with_params
-    Request.new(:get, subscription.callback_url, params: callback_params).perform
-  end
-
-  def callback_response_body
-    confirm_callback.body.to_s
+    Request.new(:get, subscription.callback_url, params: callback_params).perform do |response|
+      @callback_response_body = response.body.to_s
+    end
   end
 
   def callback_params
diff --git a/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/delivery_worker.rb b/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/delivery_worker.rb
index a9174edd2..619bfa48a 100644
--- a/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/delivery_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/pubsubhubbub/delivery_worker.rb
@@ -23,22 +23,17 @@ class Pubsubhubbub::DeliveryWorker
   private
 
   def process_delivery
-    payload_delivery
+    callback_post_payload do |payload_delivery|
+      raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, payload_delivery unless response_successful? payload_delivery
+    end
 
-    raise Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, payload_delivery unless response_successful?
-
-    payload_delivery.connection&.close
     subscription.touch(:last_successful_delivery_at)
   end
 
-  def payload_delivery
-    @_payload_delivery ||= callback_post_payload
-  end
-
-  def callback_post_payload
+  def callback_post_payload(&block)
     request = Request.new(:post, subscription.callback_url, body: payload)
     request.add_headers(headers)
-    request.perform
+    request.perform(&block)
   end
 
   def blocked_domain?
@@ -80,7 +75,7 @@ class Pubsubhubbub::DeliveryWorker
     OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest(OpenSSL::Digest.new('sha1'), subscription.secret, payload)
   end
 
-  def response_successful?
+  def response_successful?(payload_delivery)
     payload_delivery.code > 199 && payload_delivery.code < 300
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/tasks/mastodon.rake b/lib/tasks/mastodon.rake
index cf32b1495..0972e4367 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/mastodon.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/mastodon.rake
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ namespace :mastodon do
         progress_bar.increment
 
         begin
-          res = Request.new(:head, account.uri).perform
+          code = Request.new(:head, account.uri).perform(&:code)
         rescue StandardError
           # This could happen due to network timeout, DNS timeout, wrong SSL cert, etc,
           # which should probably not lead to perceiving the account as deleted, so
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ namespace :mastodon do
           next
         end
 
-        if [404, 410].include?(res.code)
+        if [404, 410].include?(code)
           if options[:force]
             SuspendAccountService.new.call(account)
             account.destroy
diff --git a/spec/lib/request_spec.rb b/spec/lib/request_spec.rb
index 5da357c55..4d6b20dd5 100644
--- a/spec/lib/request_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/request_spec.rb
@@ -39,12 +39,10 @@ describe Request do
 
   describe '#perform' do
     context 'with valid host' do
-      before do
-        stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com')
-        subject.perform
-      end
+      before { stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com') }
 
       it 'executes a HTTP request' do
+        expect { |block| subject.perform &block }.to yield_control
         expect(a_request(:get, 'http://example.com')).to have_been_made.once
       end
 
@@ -52,12 +50,20 @@ describe Request do
         allow(Addrinfo).to receive(:foreach).with('example.com', nil, nil, :SOCK_STREAM)
                                             .and_yield(Addrinfo.new(["AF_INET", 0, "example.com", "0.0.0.0"], :PF_INET, :SOCK_STREAM))
                                             .and_yield(Addrinfo.new(["AF_INET6", 0, "example.com", "2001:4860:4860::8844"], :PF_INET6, :SOCK_STREAM))
+
+        expect { |block| subject.perform &block }.to yield_control
         expect(a_request(:get, 'http://example.com')).to have_been_made.once
       end
 
       it 'sets headers' do
+        expect { |block| subject.perform &block }.to yield_control
         expect(a_request(:get, 'http://example.com').with(headers: subject.headers)).to have_been_made
       end
+
+      it 'closes underlaying connection' do
+        expect_any_instance_of(HTTP::Client).to receive(:close)
+        expect { |block| subject.perform &block }.to yield_control
+      end
     end
 
     context 'with private host' do