The variable might be there but it won’t be usable. A contentStream is an object to manage access to the bits on the wire. The object does not contain the bytes that would be read. And the handle/socket/network connection that the stream is providing access to will be gone.
Streams are usable as long as the underlying bytes are available too. For example, if a stream is used to read a byte array and that byte array is in memory (in another variable) the stream object may be usable, depending upon how far the read from the stream has proceeded, the possible use of mark and reset, etc. But for data via network it will not be usable after the network data has been read and the connection closed.
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