diff --git a/src/main/java/com/textkernel/tx/services/ServiceBase.java b/src/main/java/com/textkernel/tx/services/ServiceBase.java
index 114357eb..9176b2ba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/textkernel/tx/services/ServiceBase.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/textkernel/tx/services/ServiceBase.java
@@ -85,11 +85,6 @@ protected <T extends ApiResponse<?>> HttpResponse<T> executeRequest(Request apiR
             rawResponse = _httpClient.newCall(apiRequest).execute();
             apiResponse = new HttpResponse<T>(rawResponse, classOfT);
 
-            if (rawResponse != null && rawResponse.code() == 413) {
-                errorInfo.Message = "Request body was too large.";
-                throw new TxException(requestBody, rawResponse, errorInfo, null);
-            }
-            
             if (rawResponse != null && apiResponse.getData() == null && rawResponse.code() != 200) {
                 //something went wrong, a non-200 status code
                 errorInfo.Message = rawResponse.code() + " - " + rawResponse.message();
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/textkernel/tx/integration/ParsingTests.java b/src/test/java/com/textkernel/tx/integration/ParsingTests.java
index 3407774b..732692b8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/textkernel/tx/integration/ParsingTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/textkernel/tx/integration/ParsingTests.java
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ public <T extends Exception> void testParseBadInput(Document doc, Class<T> class
     @Test
     public void testLargeDocumentParse() {
         TxException e = assertThrows(TxException.class, () -> {
-                Client.parser().parseResume(new ParseRequest(new Document(new byte[40_000_000], LocalDate.now()), null));
+                Client.parser().parseResume(new ParseRequest(new Document(new byte[20_000_000], LocalDate.now()), null));
             });
 
-        String expected = "Request body was too large";
-        assertEquals(expected, e.getMessage().substring(0, expected.length()));
+        assertEquals(413, e.HttpStatusCode);
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().startsWith("Request is too large to be processed by the server. Please do not send requests larger than"));
     }
     
     @Test