title: Content Length in Golang
body: <p>I couldn't find anything helpful online on this one.</p>
  
  <p>I am writing an REST API, and I want to log the size of the body of the request in bytes for metrics. Go net/http API does not provide that directly. http.Request does have Content-Length field, but that field can be empty or the client might send false data.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get that in the middlware level? The bruteforce method would be to read the full body and check the size. But if I do that in the middleware, the handler will not have access to the body because it would have been read and closed.</p>