go network_error ai_generated true

http: response body too large

ID: go/http-response-body-too-large

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80%Fix Rate
86%Confidence
0Evidence
2025-01-20First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
1.17 active — — —
1.18 active — — —
1.19 active — — —

Root Cause

The server sent a response body that exceeds the client's configured limit, often due to a missing Content-Length header.

generic

中文

服务器发送的响应体超过了客户端配置的限制，通常是由于缺少 Content-Length 头。

Workarounds

  1. 90% success 
    Use io.LimitReader on the response body with a reasonable limit.
  2. 85% success 
    Set MaxBytesReader on the server side to limit request sizes.

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 60% fail

    This may cause memory exhaustion.

  2. 80% fail

    The response is incomplete and may cause parsing errors.