if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if body == nil {
		// this is added to avoid panic during io.ReadAll(req.Body).
		// th stack trace can be found here  https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/2074 .
		// This is very similar to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/7527.
		req.Body = io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader([]byte("")))
	}

	contentLength := calculateStreamContentLength(dataLength, chunkSize)