# Is it possible to stream request body?

**URL:** https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-stream-request-body/279
**Category:** help
**Created:** [December 30, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-stream-request-body/279 "2016-12-30T21:22:30Z")
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### Author: ![myguelraton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@myguelraton](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/myguelraton)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-stream-request-body/279/1 "2016-12-30T21:22:30Z")

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there is a “–stream” option to stream the response body to the client. is there a way to stream the request body to the server? in other words, i don’t want the proxy to buffer the request. i am trying to test large post uploads (\> 3gb) and the proxy crashes due to out-of-memory. thank you.

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### Author: ![mhils](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mitmproxy.org/mhils/32/7_2.png) [@mhils](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/mhils)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-stream-request-body/279/2 "2017-01-07T20:15:50Z")

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This is currently not implemented, sorry. The corresponding issue is [https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/1764](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/1764).