diff --git a/src/httpserver.cpp b/src/httpserver.cpp
index 5b062d65d97c..fc0132133ff3 100644
--- a/src/httpserver.cpp
+++ b/src/httpserver.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <rpc/protocol.h> // For HTTP status codes
 #include <shutdown.h>
 #include <sync.h>
+#include <util/check.h>
 #include <util/strencodings.h>
 #include <util/system.h>
 #include <util/threadnames.h>
@@ -23,12 +24,14 @@
 #include <deque>
 #include <optional>
 #include <string>
+#include <unordered_map>
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 #include <event2/buffer.h>
 #include <event2/bufferevent.h>
 #include <event2/http.h>
+#include <event2/http_struct.h>
 #include <event2/keyvalq_struct.h>
 #include <event2/thread.h>
 #include <event2/util.h>
@@ -162,6 +165,61 @@ static std::vector<HTTPPathHandler> pathHandlers GUARDED_BY(g_httppathhandlers_m
 //! Bound listening sockets
 static std::vector<evhttp_bound_socket *> boundSockets;
 
+/**
+ * @brief Helps keep track of open `evhttp_connection`s with active `evhttp_requests`
+ *
+ */
+class HTTPRequestTracker
+{
+private:
+    mutable Mutex m_mutex;
+    mutable std::condition_variable m_cv;
+    //! For each connection, keep a counter of how many requests are open
+    std::unordered_map<const evhttp_connection*, size_t> m_tracker GUARDED_BY(m_mutex);
+
+    void RemoveConnectionInternal(const decltype(m_tracker)::iterator it) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(m_mutex)
+    {
+        m_tracker.erase(it);
+        if (m_tracker.empty()) m_cv.notify_all();
+    }
+public:
+    //! Increase request counter for the associated connection by 1
+    void AddRequest(evhttp_request* req) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(!m_mutex)
+    {
+        const evhttp_connection* conn{Assert(evhttp_request_get_connection(Assert(req)))};
+        WITH_LOCK(m_mutex, ++m_tracker[conn]);
+    }
+    //! Decrease request counter for the associated connection by 1, remove connection if counter is 0
+    void RemoveRequest(evhttp_request* req) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(!m_mutex)
+    {
+        const evhttp_connection* conn{Assert(evhttp_request_get_connection(Assert(req)))};
+        LOCK(m_mutex);
+        auto it{m_tracker.find(conn)};
+        if (it != m_tracker.end() && it->second > 0) {
+            if (--(it->second) == 0) RemoveConnectionInternal(it);
+        }
+    }
+    //! Remove a connection entirely
+    void RemoveConnection(const evhttp_connection* conn) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(!m_mutex)
+    {
+        LOCK(m_mutex);
+        auto it{m_tracker.find(Assert(conn))};
+        if (it != m_tracker.end()) RemoveConnectionInternal(it);
+    }
+    size_t CountActiveConnections() const EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(!m_mutex)
+    {
+        return WITH_LOCK(m_mutex, return m_tracker.size());
+    }
+    //! Wait until there are no more connections with active requests in the tracker
+    void WaitUntilEmpty() const EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(!m_mutex)
+    {
+        WAIT_LOCK(m_mutex, lock);
+        m_cv.wait(lock, [this]() EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(m_mutex) { return m_tracker.empty(); });
+    }
+};
+//! Track active requests
+static HTTPRequestTracker g_requests;
+
 /** Check if a network address is allowed to access the HTTP server */
 static bool ClientAllowed(const CNetAddr& netaddr)
 {
@@ -217,11 +275,22 @@ std::string RequestMethodString(HTTPRequest::RequestMethod m)
 /** HTTP request callback */
 static void http_request_cb(struct evhttp_request* req, void* arg)
 {
+    evhttp_connection* conn{evhttp_request_get_connection(req)};
+    // Track active requests
+    {
+        g_requests.AddRequest(req);
+        evhttp_request_set_on_complete_cb(req, [](struct evhttp_request* req, void*) {
+            g_requests.RemoveRequest(req);
+        }, nullptr);
+        evhttp_connection_set_closecb(conn, [](evhttp_connection* conn, void* arg) {
+            g_requests.RemoveConnection(conn);
+        }, nullptr);
+    }
+
     // Disable reading to work around a libevent bug, fixed in 2.1.9
     // See https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/5ff8eb26371c4dc56f384b2de35bea2d87814779
     // and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11593.
     if (event_get_version_number() >= 0x02010600 && event_get_version_number() < 0x02010900) {
-        evhttp_connection* conn = evhttp_request_get_connection(req);
         if (conn) {
             bufferevent* bev = evhttp_connection_get_bufferevent(conn);
             if (bev) {
@@ -496,15 +565,24 @@ void StopHTTPServer()
         evhttp_del_accept_socket(eventHTTP, socket);
     }
     boundSockets.clear();
-    if (eventBase) {
-        LogPrint(BCLog::HTTP, "Waiting for HTTP event thread to exit\n");
-        if (g_thread_http.joinable()) g_thread_http.join();
+    {
+        if (const auto n_connections{g_requests.CountActiveConnections()}; n_connections != 0) {
+            LogPrint(BCLog::HTTP, "Waiting for %d connections to stop HTTP server\n", n_connections);
+        }
+        g_requests.WaitUntilEmpty();
     }
     if (eventHTTP) {
-        evhttp_free(eventHTTP);
-        eventHTTP = nullptr;
+        // Schedule a callback to call evhttp_free in the event base thread, so
+        // that evhttp_free does not need to be called again after the handling
+        // of unfinished request connections that follows.
+        event_base_once(eventBase, -1, EV_TIMEOUT, [](evutil_socket_t, short, void*) {
+            evhttp_free(eventHTTP);
+            eventHTTP = nullptr;
+        }, nullptr, nullptr);
     }
     if (eventBase) {
+        LogPrint(BCLog::HTTP, "Waiting for HTTP event thread to exit\n");
+        if (g_thread_http.joinable()) g_thread_http.join();
         event_base_free(eventBase);
         eventBase = nullptr;
     }
diff --git a/test/functional/feature_abortnode.py b/test/functional/feature_abortnode.py
index 19431d2baaf8..3c4e03bb05ee 100755
--- a/test/functional/feature_abortnode.py
+++ b/test/functional/feature_abortnode.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ class AbortNodeTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
     def set_test_params(self):
         self.setup_clean_chain = True
         self.num_nodes = 2
-        self.rpc_timeout = 240
 
     def setup_network(self):
         self.setup_nodes()
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ def run_test(self):
 
             # Check that node0 aborted
             self.log.info("Waiting for crash")
-            self.nodes[0].wait_until_stopped(timeout=200)
+            self.nodes[0].wait_until_stopped(timeout=5)
         self.log.info("Node crashed - now verifying restart fails")
         self.nodes[0].assert_start_raises_init_error()