diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py b/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
index 4590a361026..40420bebee4 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
@@ -1034,27 +1034,56 @@ def _mock_transport() -> httpx.MockTransport:
     return httpx.MockTransport(respond)
 
 
+RELEASED_TOO_EARLY = "the handler was released while its response could still read"
+NEVER_RELEASED = "the handler outlived the response that was holding it"
+
+# Every method that can hand back a body the caller has not read yet, which is
+# every one that passes stream= down to send(). Parametrized so a method added
+# later is covered here rather than being the one that forgets to anchor.
+ASYNC_STREAMING_SENDS = ["post", "delete"]
+SYNC_STREAMING_SENDS = ["post", "patch", "put", "delete"]
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_a_streaming_response_holds_its_handler_until_it_is_released():
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("method", ASYNC_STREAMING_SENDS)
+async def test_a_streaming_response_holds_its_handler_until_it_is_released(method):
     """The finalizer must not run while a body this handler issued can still arrive.
 
     ``_handler_may_close_client`` cannot see that body: it holds the connection it
     reads from and never the client. Anchoring the handler to the response is what
-    withholds the close, and releasing it is what still delivers one.
+    withholds the close, and releasing the anchor is what still delivers one.
     """
     handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
     handler.client._transport = _mock_transport()
     ref = weakref.ref(handler)
-    response = await handler.post("https://example.invalid/stream", stream=True)
+    response = await getattr(handler, method)("https://example.invalid/stream", stream=True)
 
     del handler
     gc.collect()
-    assert ref() is not None, "the handler was released while its response could still read"
+    assert ref() is not None, RELEASED_TOO_EARLY
 
     assert await response.aread() == b"ab"
     del response
     gc.collect()
-    assert ref() is None, "the handler outlived the response that was holding it"
+    assert ref() is None, NEVER_RELEASED
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("method", SYNC_STREAMING_SENDS)
+def test_a_sync_streaming_response_holds_its_handler_until_it_is_released(method):
+    """The sync finalizer closes inline, so the same anchor has to hold it off."""
+    handler = HTTPHandler()
+    handler.client._transport = _mock_transport()
+    ref = weakref.ref(handler)
+    response = getattr(handler, method)("https://example.invalid/stream", stream=True)
+
+    del handler
+    gc.collect()
+    assert ref() is not None, RELEASED_TOO_EARLY
+
+    assert response.read() == b"ab"
+    del response
+    gc.collect()
+    assert ref() is None, NEVER_RELEASED
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
@@ -1076,23 +1105,6 @@ async def test_a_fully_read_response_does_not_hold_its_handler():
     assert ref() is None, "a fully-read response pinned its handler"
 
 
-def test_a_sync_streaming_response_holds_its_handler_until_it_is_released():
-    """The sync finalizer closes inline, so the same anchor has to hold it off."""
-    handler = HTTPHandler()
-    handler.client._transport = _mock_transport()
-    ref = weakref.ref(handler)
-    response = handler.post("https://example.invalid/stream", stream=True)
-
-    del handler
-    gc.collect()
-    assert ref() is not None, "the handler was released while its response could still read"
-
-    assert response.read() == b"ab"
-    del response
-    gc.collect()
-    assert ref() is None, "the handler outlived the response that was holding it"
-
-
 def test_sync_close_leaves_caller_supplied_client_open():
     supplied = httpx.Client()
     handler = HTTPHandler(client=supplied)