Environment: Spring Web 6.1.6, Java 17 The situation is the same as in #31719, which occurs when using Reactor Netty. The reason is that the following code throws an exception: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/v6.1.6/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/ReactorNettyClientResponse.java#L85 I believe that null should also be returned when using Reactor Netty, please let me know about a better way to implement this. Thanks