Trouble with Custom Middleware in ASP.NET Core - Request Body Not Being Fully Read
I'm having trouble with I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I've searched everywhere and can't find a clear answer... I'm working on an ASP.NET Core 6 application and have created a custom middleware to log request details. However, I'm working with an scenario where the request body is not being fully read when the middleware is executed before the MVC pipeline. I expect to log the entire JSON payload from the request, but it appears that the body is empty or partially empty when I log it. Here's my middleware implementation: ```csharp public class RequestLoggingMiddleware { private readonly RequestDelegate _next; public RequestLoggingMiddleware(RequestDelegate next) { _next = next; } public async Task InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) { context.Request.EnableBuffering(); // Enable buffering to allow multiple reads using (var reader = new StreamReader(context.Request.Body, Encoding.UTF8, leaveOpen: true)) { var body = await reader.ReadToEndAsync(); Console.WriteLine($"Request Body: {body}"); context.Request.Body.Position = 0; // Reset the stream position for downstream middleware } await _next(context); } } ``` I have made sure to call `EnableBuffering` before reading the body. Additionally, I reset the stream position back to zero after reading. Despite these efforts, I often receive an empty body when logging POST requests, especially when the requests contain large payloads. I have also tried different content types (like `application/json` and `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`) but the question continues. Is there something I'm missing in terms of middleware ordering or configuration? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! I'm working on a service that needs to handle this. What am I doing wrong? This is part of a larger application I'm building. How would you solve this? Any suggestions would be helpful.