413 Content Too Large
The body is over the limit. Say what the limit is in the response.
413Client error
- What it means
- The body is over the limit. Say what the limit is in the response.
- In practice
- An upload exceeded a size cap — and the cap is very often in the proxy, not the app: nginx’s client_max_body_size defaults to 1 MB and produces 413s the application never sees. If your API accepts a file in code but 413s in production, check the reverse proxy first.
- Whose problem is it?
- The request. Retrying it unchanged will get the same answer.