When forwarding an AbortedResponse response body is lost

Run below example and call the /resteasy-client-abort-problem/showproblem endpoint: package resteasyclientabortproblem; import javax.ws.rs.GET; import javax.ws.rs.Path; import javax.ws.rs.Produces; import javax.ws.rs.client.Client; import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder; import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext; import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestFilter; import javax.ws.rs.core.Response; import java.io.IOException; import static javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN; import static javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE; @Path( "/" ) public class ClientAbortProblem implements ClientRequestFilter { @Override public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException { requestContext.abortWith(Response.ok( "This is an aborted response" ).header( "Aborted" , " true " ).type(TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE).build()); } @Path( "/showproblem" ) @GET @Produces({TEXT_PLAIN}) public Response showProblem() { Client c = ClientBuilder.newClient().register( this ); return c.target( "http: //doesnotmattersinceitisaborted" ).request().get(); // the problem is that the response body is lost somehow. I would have expected the text "This is an aborted response" // but the body is empty and the Content-Length header says 0. The Aborted: true header comes back as expected and so does the content type // i have run the same test against jersey and here i get the body } }