diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index 045159b..c3a4e8b 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
 		<attributes>
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+			<attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index cfa6374..2a94e7d 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -1,10 +1,28 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
-    <wb-module deploy-name="uri-resolver">
+        
+    <wb-module deploy-name="uri-resolver-2.6.1-SNAPSHOT">
+                
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>
+                
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp" tag="defaultRootSource"/>
+                
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
+                
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
+        <dependent-module archiveName="storage-manager-wrapper-2.6.1-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/storage-manager-wrapper/storage-manager-wrapper">
+            <dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
+        </dependent-module>
+        <dependent-module archiveName="storage-manager-core-2.13.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/storage-manager-core/storage-manager-core">
+            <dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
+        </dependent-module>
+        <dependent-module archiveName="common-encryption-1.2.1.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/common-encryption/common-encryption">
+            <dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
+        </dependent-module>
+                
         <property name="context-root" value="uri-resolver"/>
+                
         <property name="java-output-path" value="/uri-resolver/target/classes"/>
+            
     </wb-module>
+    
 </project-modules>
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
index 8461581..e9d8776 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <faceted-project>
   <fixed facet="wst.jsdt.web"/>
   <installed facet="wst.jsdt.web" version="1.0"/>
-  <installed facet="jst.web" version="2.3"/>
   <installed facet="java" version="1.7"/>
   <installed facet="jst.jaxrs" version="2.0"/>
+  <installed facet="jst.web" version="3.0"/>
 </faceted-project>
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7227e26..4f58699 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+## [v2-6-1-SNAPSHOT] - 2021-09-02
+
+**New features**
+
+[#21411] add forceClose method: closing mongodb connections for old https urls (by storage-manager)
 
 ## [v2-5-1-SNAPSHOT] - 2021-06-04
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2f4a736..be4fa8e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	</parent>
 	<groupId>org.gcube.data.transfer</groupId>
 	<artifactId>uri-resolver</artifactId>
-	<version>2.5.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>2.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
 	<description>The URI Resolver is an HTTP URI resolver implemented as an REST service which gives access trough HTTP to different gcube Resolvers and gCube Applications.</description>
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.gcube.contentmanagement</groupId>
 			<artifactId>storage-manager-wrapper</artifactId>
-			<version>[2.0.0, 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT)</version>
+			<version>[2.6.1-SNAPSHOT, 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT)</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/datatransfer/resolver/services/StorageIDResolver.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/datatransfer/resolver/services/StorageIDResolver.java
index ccc76cf..05e61e8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/datatransfer/resolver/services/StorageIDResolver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/datatransfer/resolver/services/StorageIDResolver.java
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ public class StorageIDResolver {
 
 //		if (contentType!= null)
 //			response.header("Content-Type",contentType);
-
+		iClient.forceClose();
 		return response.build();
 
 	}
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ public class StorageIDResolver {
 				.header("Content-Type", contentType)
 				.header(ConstantsResolver.CONTENT_LENGTH, size)
 				.header(ConstantsResolver.CONTENT_DISPOSITION,"attachment; filename=\""+fileName+"\"");
-		
+		iClient.forceClose();
 		return response.build();
 
 	}