Request Body Handling Customizations

July 24, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Request Body Size Limiter

By default, the max allowed Request Body size is 10 MB. If the client request body in a POST, PUT or PATCH are over 10 MB, the request will receive a response of 413 Request Payload is too large

You can change (or bypass) this limit in the 'listeners' Config Section per-listener:

listeners:
  default:
    max_request_body_size_bytes: 5120 # request bodies must be <= 5kb or returns 413
listeners:
  default:
    max_request_body_size_bytes: 5120 # request bodies > 5kb truncated to 5kb
    truncate_request_body_too_large: true # truncate request bodies that are too large