diff --git a/src/webfetch/fetcher.ts b/src/webfetch/fetcher.ts
index 8f878b5..effa74b 100644
--- a/src/webfetch/fetcher.ts
+++ b/src/webfetch/fetcher.ts
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ interface HttpResponse {
 }
 
 interface ResponseBodyStream extends AsyncIterable<unknown> {
+	on?(event: "error", listener: (error: Error) => void): unknown;
 	destroy(error?: Error): void;
-	dump(options?: { limit: number; signal?: AbortSignal }): Promise<void>;
+	dump?(options?: { limit: number; signal?: AbortSignal }): Promise<void>;
 }
 
 export async function fetchUrl(options: FetchOptions): Promise<FetchResult> {
@@ -208,15 +209,29 @@ function getHeader(headers: IncomingHttpHeaders, name: string): string {
 	return value ?? "";
 }
 
-async function discardBody(body: ResponseBodyStream): Promise<void> {
+// Some runtimes resolve "undici" to builds whose response body lacks dump().
+// Discarding must stay best-effort: re-emitting an error on an unlistened
+// stream crashes the host process.
+export async function discardBody(body: ResponseBodyStream): Promise<void> {
 	try {
-		await body.dump({ limit: 1024 });
-	} catch (error) {
-		if (error instanceof Error) {
-			body.destroy(error);
+		if (typeof body.dump === "function") {
+			await body.dump({ limit: 1024 });
 			return;
 		}
-		throw error;
+		await drainBody(body);
+	} catch {
+		// Discard failures are not actionable for the caller.
+	} finally {
+		body.on?.("error", () => {});
+		body.destroy();
+	}
+}
+
+async function drainBody(body: ResponseBodyStream): Promise<void> {
+	let drained = 0;
+	for await (const chunk of body) {
+		drained += toUint8Array(chunk).length;
+		if (drained > MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE_BYTES) return;
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/test/discard-body.test.ts b/test/discard-body.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e59b7f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/discard-body.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { Readable, type ReadableOptions } from "node:stream";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { discardBody } from "../src/webfetch/fetcher.js";
+
+type MinimalBody = {
+	destroy(error?: Error): void;
+	dump?(options?: { limit: number }): Promise<void>;
+};
+
+function streamWithoutDump(chunks: string[], options?: ReadableOptions): Readable & MinimalBody {
+	const stream = new Readable(options ?? {});
+	for (const chunk of chunks) {
+		stream.push(chunk);
+	}
+	stream.push(null);
+	return stream as Readable & MinimalBody;
+}
+
+describe("discardBody", () => {
+	it("#given body without dump #when discarding #then resolves and drains the stream", async () => {
+		// given
+		const body = streamWithoutDump(["hello ", "world"]);
+
+		// when
+		await expect(discardBody(body)).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+		// then
+		expect(body.readableEnded).toBe(true);
+	});
+
+	it("#given body without dump that errors mid-stream #when discarding #then resolves without surfacing the error", async () => {
+		// given
+		const body = streamWithoutDump(["partial"]);
+		const failure = new Error("stream exploded");
+		queueMicrotask(() => body.destroy(failure));
+
+		// when
+		await expect(discardBody(body)).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+		// then
+		expect(body.destroyed).toBe(true);
+	});
+
+	it("#given dump-capable body #when discarding #then uses dump instead of manual drain", async () => {
+		// given
+		let dumped = false;
+		const body = streamWithoutDump(["ignored"]);
+		body.dump = async () => {
+			dumped = true;
+		};
+
+		// when
+		await discardBody(body);
+
+		// then
+		expect(dumped).toBe(true);
+	});
+});