diff --git a/docs/examples/sepheaders.c b/docs/examples/sepheaders.c
index 63ea99391..e085f5177 100644
--- a/docs/examples/sepheaders.c
+++ b/docs/examples/sepheaders.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ int main(void)
   bodyfile = fopen(bodyfilename,"wb");
   if (bodyfile == NULL) {
     curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
+    fclose(headerfile);
     return -1;
   }