plandex-ai/plandex · error

Error reading request body:

Error message

Error reading request body: 

What it means

CreateAccountHandler reads the raw request body with io.ReadAll; if that read fails (connection dropped mid-request, body stream error), it responds 500 with `Error reading request body: <detail>`. This happens before any JSON parsing, so the payload never reached unmarshalling.

Source

Thrown at app/server/handlers/accounts.go:35

	"github.com/jmoiron/sqlx"
)

func CreateAccountHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	log.Println("Received request for CreateAccountHandler")

	if os.Getenv("IS_CLOUD") != "" {
		log.Println("Creating accounts is not supported in cloud mode")
		http.Error(w, "Creating accounts is not supported in cloud mode", http.StatusNotImplemented)
		return
	}

	isLocalMode := (os.Getenv("GOENV") == "development" && os.Getenv("LOCAL_MODE") == "1")

	// read the request body
	body, err := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error reading request body: %v\n", err)
		http.Error(w, "Error reading request body: "+err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}

	var req shared.CreateAccountRequest
	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &req)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error unmarshalling request: %v\n", err)
		http.Error(w, "Error unmarshalling request: "+err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}
	req.Email = strings.ToLower(req.Email)

	var emailVerificationId string

	// skipping email verification in dev/local mode
	if !isLocalMode {
		emailVerificationId, err = db.ValidateEmailVerification(req.Email, req.Pin)

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Solutions

1. Retry the request from the client once the connection is stable
2. Verify the HTTP client sends Content-Length / chunked encoding correctly and does not abort early
3. Check proxy/load-balancer body size and timeout limits
4. Inspect the server log line `Error reading request body: %v` for the underlying cause

Example fix

// before
resp, err := http.Post(url, "application/json", brokenBodyReader)
// after
body, _ := json.Marshal(req)
resp, err := http.Post(url, "application/json", bytes.NewReader(body))

resp, err := http.Post(url, "application/json", bytes.NewReader(payload))
if err != nil {
    // transport-level failure: retry with backoff
    resp, err = http.Post(url, "application/json", bytes.NewReader(payload))
}

When it happens

Trigger: POSTing to the create-account endpoint with a broken/aborted connection, an oversized body that fails streaming, or a client that closes the connection before the body is fully transmitted.

Common situations: Flaky networks or proxies terminating long requests; HTTP clients with aggressive timeouts that abort while sending the body; load balancers with small body-size limits.

Related errors

• Error reading request body
• Error reading request body
• Error reading request body
• Error reading request body:
• Error parsing request body

AI-assisted analysis of plandex-ai/plandex@e2d772072e (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/f69f2a4210a8a0f0. Report an issue: GitHub.