diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 7214492eca9d88..1ff6290c904210 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -402,6 +402,8 @@ def test_read_bogus(self):
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 ''')
         try:
+            # Silence destructor error
+            http.client.HTTPConnection.close = lambda self: None
             self.assertRaises(OSError, urlopen, "http://python.org/")
         finally:
             self.unfakehttp()
@@ -416,6 +418,8 @@ def test_invalid_redirect(self):
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 ''')
         try:
+            # Silence destructor error
+            http.client.HTTPConnection.close = lambda self: None
             msg = "Redirection to url 'file:"
             with self.assertRaisesRegex(urllib.error.HTTPError, msg):
                 urlopen("http://python.org/")
@@ -431,6 +435,8 @@ def test_redirect_limit_independent(self):
 Connection: close
 ''')
             try:
+                # Silence destructor error
+                http.client.HTTPConnection.close = lambda self: None
                 self.assertRaises(urllib.error.HTTPError, urlopen,
                     "http://something")
             finally: