Cause (Documented platform behavior): Claude Code v2.1.208+ refuses to decode a successful stream with a non-eventstream content type; before, it failed as 'Truncated event message received' after buffering.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Workaround (not a fix): CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 (non-streaming fallback)
Misleading approaches:
- Setting the guard env var as a fix — requests then fall back to slower non-streaming
Other error fragments:
- expected "application/vnd.amazon.eventstream"
- API Error: Truncated event message received
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors#bedrock-streaming-response-has-an-unexpected-content-type (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Docs: gateway transforming the binary eventstream is the cause; guard added v2.1.208, replacing 'Truncated event message received'.
Search phrasings: Bedrock streaming response has content-type text/event-stream expected application/vnd.amazon.eventstream; Truncated event message received claude code bedrock gateway; litellm bedrock claude code eventstream
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Request rejected, no retry.
- Context
- Product: Claude Code Component: Bedrock streaming via gateway Operation: InvokeModelWithResponseStream through a gateway that re-emits the stream as SSE Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Trigger: Gateway/proxy transforms Bedrock's binary event-stream body or its Content-Type header (commonly re-emitting as server-sent events).
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Bedrock streaming response has content-type
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Claude Code on Bedrock behind gateway] 'Bedrock streaming response has content-type "text/event-stream"; expected "application/vnd.amazon.eventstream"' (formerly 'Truncated event messag
Recommended action: Configure the gateway to pass InvokeModelWithResponseStream body and Content-Type through unmodified; CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 only hides the error (slower non-streaming path).
Option: Configure the gateway to pass InvokeModelWithResponseStream body and Content-Type through unmodified; CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 only hides the error (slower non-streaming path). [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: InvokeModelWithResponseStream through a gateway that re-emits the stream as SSE
Steps:
1. Fix gateway pass-through of body + Content-Type
2. Temporary: CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 (falls back to non-streaming)
Expected: The error no longer appears.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 2e45c442-580d-4630-9c38-8d8b8c0b7264
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Configure the gateway to pass InvokeModelWithResponseStream body and Content-Type through unmodified; CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 only hides the error (slower non-streaming path). Option: Configure the gateway to pass InvokeModelWithResponseStream body and Content-Type through unmodified; CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 only hides the error (slower non-streaming path). [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: InvokeModelWithResponseStream through a gateway that re-emits the stream as SSE Steps: 1. Fix gateway pass-through of body + Content-Type 2. Temporary: CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD=1 (falls back to non-streaming) Expected: The error no longer appears.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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