diff --git a/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4.0/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/hypertrace/apachehttpclient/v4_0/ApacheHttpClientUtils.java b/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4.0/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/hypertrace/apachehttpclient/v4_0/ApacheHttpClientUtils.java
index 8e49bc0b..77cec83e 100644
--- a/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4.0/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/hypertrace/apachehttpclient/v4_0/ApacheHttpClientUtils.java
+++ b/instrumentation/apache-httpclient-4.0/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/hypertrace/apachehttpclient/v4_0/ApacheHttpClientUtils.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Span;
 import io.opentelemetry.javaagent.instrumentation.hypertrace.apachehttpclient.v4_0.ApacheHttpClientObjectRegistry.SpanAndAttributeKey;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
@@ -113,7 +114,10 @@ public static void traceEntity(
             && contentEncoding.getValue().toLowerCase().contains("gzip");
     if (entity.isRepeatable()) {
       try {
-        InputStream contentStream = entity.getContent();
+        BoundedByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream =
+            BoundedBuffersFactory.createStream(charset);
+        entity.writeTo(byteArrayOutputStream);
+        InputStream contentStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray());
         if (isGzipEncoded) {
           try {
             contentStream = new GZIPInputStream(contentStream);