Difficulties reading raw request body because it's already read

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I needed to read the raw request body for one specific route. I tried to read context.Request().Body but it seemed like it was already read, even though I hadn't called context.Bind or anything. The request logs were showing it had indeed already been parsed as form-encoded (it was not, in fact, form encoded, and was sent without a content-type header).

I found an old issue talking about this problem and comments suggest it was fixed by making the request body somehow able to be read multiple times. It sure doesn't seem fixed for me. Then I found another old issue suggesting that it had been un-fixed at some point, and the last comment suggests it's no longer acknowledged as a problem :/

I eventually solved this problem by sending content-type: text/plain on the request, so I'm making this issue for 2 purposes:

• to suggest this be more clearly documented.

• to help people searching for this problem until then.

By the way, it's weird that this works because my app setup does app.Use(contenttype.Set("application/json")), and the documentation for contenttype.Set says "This will override any content type sent by the client." Does contenttype.Set not work as intended?

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