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description: The unaltered HTTP request body.
title: http.request.body.raw
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/og-docs.png
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# http.request.body.raw

`http.request.body.raw``String`

The unaltered HTTP request body.

When the value of [`http.request.body.truncated`](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ruleset-engine/rules-language/fields/reference/http.request.body.truncated/) is `true`, the return value may be truncated.

- **Decoding**: No decoding performed
- **Whitespace**: Preserved
- **Non-ASCII**: Preserved

Requires a Cloudflare Enterprise plan.

Caution

All `http.request.body.*` fields (except [`http.request.body.size`](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ruleset-engine/rules-language/fields/reference/http.request.body.size/)) handle a given maximum body size, which varies per plan. For Enterprise customers, the maximum body size is 128 KB. For other paid plans, the limit is lower by default — reach out to your account team or to Cloudflare Support to increase the limit. For users in the Free plan, the limit is 1 MB.

You cannot define expressions that rely on request body data beyond the maximum size set for your plan. If the request body is larger, the body fields will contain a truncated value and the [`http.request.body.truncated`](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ruleset-engine/rules-language/fields/reference/http.request.body.truncated/) field will be set to `true`. The [`http.request.body.size`](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ruleset-engine/rules-language/fields/reference/http.request.body.size/) field will contain the full size of the request without any truncation.

The maximum body size applies only to the values of HTTP body fields — the origin server will still receive the complete request body.

Categories:
- Request
- Body
- Raw fields

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