[BUG] Protocol error (Network.getResponseBody): Request content was evicted from inspector cache

I am trying to read a large JSON file around 24.9 MB using playwright. When I am making the request and trying to read the body using the playwright.BrowserContext response event but I am getting this error response.json: Protocol error (Network.getResponseBody): Request content was evicted from inspector cache at BrowserContext.<anonymous>

This issue is raised and it’s closed. I have tried to execute same code snippet but it’s not working in playwright.

• Playwright Version: 1.20.1
• Operating System: macOS Monterey v12.3 ( M1 )
• Node.js version: v17.7.0
• Browser: Chromium

What steps will reproduce the problem?

import playwright from 'playwright';

const getBrowser = async () => {
  const launchOptions = {
    devtools: false,
    headless: false,
    ignoreDefaultArgs: ['--disable-extensions', '--enable-automation'],
    args: [`--start-maximized`],
  };
  const browser = await playwright['chromium'].launch(launchOptions);
  const context = await browser.newContext({ viewport: null });
  return {
    context: context,
    newPage: () => context.newPage(),
    close: () => browser.close(),
  };
};

(async () => {
  const { newPage, context } = await getBrowser();
  const page = await newPage();
  const client = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
  await client.send('Page.setLifecycleEventsEnabled', { enabled: true });
  await client.send('Network.enable', {
    maxResourceBufferSize: 1024 * 1204 * 100,
    maxTotalBufferSize: 1024 * 1204 * 200,
  });

  context.on('response', async (response) => {
    try {
      const url = response.url();
      if (url.includes('json')) {
        await response.json();
        // getting error in console:
      }
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e);
    }
  });

  await page.goto(`https://raw.githubusercontent.com/json-iterator/test-data/master/large-file.json`, {
    waitUntil: 'networkidle',
  });
})();

What is the expected result? The expected result it the response of JSON

What happens instead? It throws following error

Protocol error (Network.getResponseBody): Request content was evicted from inspector cache
   at BrowserContext.<anonymous>

[dwt]

Same problem here…

[mxschmitt]

We’ll p3 it for now an collecting feedback to see if other folks run into it since loading 10mb+ bodies is not very common.