General
AWS request is malformed at the HTTP level
MalformedHttpRequestException
AWS rejected the request because the HTTP request itself is malformed, such as an invalid body encoding or decompression mismatch.
Error AtlasError Documentation and ResolutionObserved message
MalformedHttpRequestException
Why it happens
- The request body encoding does not match the declared HTTP headers.
- Compression or decompression settings are invalid.
- A proxy or client malformed the request before it reached AWS.
How to fix it
- Review Content-Encoding and related HTTP headers.
- Make sure the request body matches the declared compression or encoding format.
- Test the request path without intermediaries if a proxy may be altering it.
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