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user1781563

Reputation: 755

Error: Request body larger than maxBodyLength limit when sending base64 post request Axios

When sending a post request with a Base64 encoded pdf as the body i recieve the error

Error: Request body larger than maxBodyLength limit

I have tried setting both of the following

'maxContentLength': Infinity, 'maxBodyLength': Infinity

in the request config

const result = await axios({
            url: `the url`,
            headers: {'Authorization': `Bearer ${auth_token}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
            method: 'post',
            data: {
                'ParentId': record_id,
                'Name': file_name,
                'body': body,
                'Description': description ? description : "",
                'maxContentLength': Infinity,
                'maxBodyLength': Infinity
            }
        });

Does anyone have a workaround?

Upvotes: 52

Views: 53918

Answers (3)

Schmidko
Schmidko

Reputation: 810

If you want to set the maxContentLength and maxBodyLength only one time for all axios calls you can register an interceptor. Add this code before all your axios calls and you body size problems are gone.

axios.interceptors.request.use(request => {
    request.maxContentLength = Infinity;
    request.maxBodyLength = Infinity;
    return request;
})

Upvotes: 7

Sumith Ekanayake
Sumith Ekanayake

Reputation: 2265

That is what worked for me:

axios({
    method: 'post',
    url: posturl,
    data: formData,
    maxContentLength: Infinity,
    maxBodyLength: Infinity,
    headers: {'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data;boundary=' + formData.getBoundary()}
})

Upvotes: 53

Aritra Chakraborty
Aritra Chakraborty

Reputation: 12542

You are setting 

'maxContentLength': Infinity,
'maxBodyLength': Infinity

In your data object. It should be inside the config object, outside the data object.

Upvotes: 79

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