diff --git a/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/linkcheck/FileToCheck.java b/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/linkcheck/FileToCheck.java
index 4b25f681..c842ffa9 100644
--- a/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/linkcheck/FileToCheck.java
+++ b/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/linkcheck/FileToCheck.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package org.apache.maven.linkcheck;
  * ====================================================================
  */
 
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ import org.w3c.tidy.Tidy;
 
 /**
  * @author <a href="mailto:bwalding@apache.org">Ben Walding</a>
- * @version $Id: FileToCheck.java,v 1.17 2004/08/01 22:23:33 carlos Exp $
+ * @version $Id: FileToCheck.java,v 1.18 2004/08/17 17:14:35 carlos Exp $
  */
 public class FileToCheck
 {
@@ -146,13 +147,13 @@ public class FileToCheck
     {
         ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         PrintWriter errOut = new PrintWriter(baos);
-        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(fileToCheck);
+        BufferedInputStream bin = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(fileToCheck));
         try
         {
             Tidy tidy = getTidy();
             tidy.setErrout(errOut);
             LOG.debug("Processing:" + fileToCheck);
-            org.w3c.dom.Document domDocument = tidy.parseDOM(in, null);
+            org.w3c.dom.Document domDocument = tidy.parseDOM(bin, null);
 
             // now read a dom4j document from
             // JTidy's W3C DOM object
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ public class FileToCheck
         }
         finally
         {
-            close(in);
+            close(bin);
             close(baos);
         }
     }
diff --git a/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml b/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
index 881d0d19..183cccfd 100644
--- a/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.4-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPLINKCHECK-15" due-to="Stephane Mikaty">Use BufferedInputStream in FileToCheck</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="fix">Set links as invalid on unknown errors</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPLINKCHECK-8">Use CDATA in file name</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="add">Added <code>maven.linkcheck.exclude</code> property</action>