diff --git a/smack-tcp/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/tcp/XMPPTCPConnection.java b/smack-tcp/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/tcp/XMPPTCPConnection.java
index fcb0bac22..017af18a0 100644
--- a/smack-tcp/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/tcp/XMPPTCPConnection.java
+++ b/smack-tcp/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/tcp/XMPPTCPConnection.java
@@ -1191,7 +1191,8 @@ public class XMPPTCPConnection extends AbstractXMPPConnection {
                         }
                         break;
                     case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:
-                        if (parser.getName().equals("stream")) {
+                        final String endTagName = parser.getName();
+                        if ("stream".equals(endTagName)) {
                             if (!parser.getNamespace().equals("http://etherx.jabber.org/streams")) {
                                 LOGGER.warning(XMPPTCPConnection.this +  " </stream> but different namespace " + parser.getNamespace());
                                 break;