Request: bodyUsed property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The bodyUsed read-only property of the Request interface is a boolean value that indicates whether the request body has been read yet.

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

js
const request = new Request("/myEndpoint", {
  method: "POST",
  body: "Hello world",
});

request.bodyUsed; // false

request.text().then((bodyAsText) => {
  console.log(request.bodyUsed); // true
});

Specifications

Specification
Fetch
# ref-for-dom-body-bodyused①

Browser compatibility

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See also