maxContentLength config not working for exceeded content-length response

Summary

I want to limit response content in bytes, so set maxContentLength to config. But doesn’t work fine. Is there any mistake?

Expected behavior

axios throws Error of maxContentLength size of 100 exceeded

Actual behavior

axios doesn’t throw any error.

Code

These files locate this repo root -> examples -> test dir to reproduce this situation.

• index.html for client

...
<script>
      axios.get('/test/server', { maxContentLength: 100 }) 
        .then(function (response) {
          console.log(response)
          console.log(JSON.stringify(response))
        })
        .catch(function (err) {
          console.error(err)
        });
</script>
...

• server.js

module.exports = function(req, res) {
  var str = Array(100000).join('ж');
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8');
  res.end(str);
};

• response

{
  "data": ...,
  "status": 200,
  "statusText": "OK",
  "headers": {
    "date": "Wed, 18 Apr 2018 02:25:46 GMT",
    "connection": "keep-alive",
    "content-length": "199998",
    "content-type": "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
  },
  "config": {
    "url": "/test/server",
    "method": "get",
    "headers": { "Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*" },
    "transformRequest": [null],
    "transformResponse": [null],
    "timeout": 0,
    "xsrfCookieName": "XSRF-TOKEN",
    "xsrfHeaderName": "X-XSRF-TOKEN",
    "maxContentLength": 100
  },
  "request": {}
}

Context

• npm version: e.g.: v5.6.0
• axios version: e.g.: v0.18.0
• Environment: e.g.: node v9.11.1, chrome 65, macOS

[Kameecoding]

This parameter still doesn’t work.

Tested on: 0.19.2

[hovissimo]

My project is now receiving alerts on this issue.

See CVE-2019-10742