diff --git a/src/http/client.rs b/src/http/client.rs
index 3e694f69..186ce7a9 100644
--- a/src/http/client.rs
+++ b/src/http/client.rs
@@ -34,6 +34,61 @@ const HTTP_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
 /// Redirect hops to follow before giving up (mirrors the Tor path).
 const MAX_REDIRECTS: usize = 5;
 
+/// Maximum HTTP response body (in bytes) the wallet will buffer into memory,
+/// shared by the clearnet path here and the Tor path in `crate::tor`. Every
+/// legitimate response the wallet pulls is small: the relay-pool gist JSON
+/// (schema-capped to 64 relays), NIP-05 `.well-known` and by-pubkey JSON, the
+/// NIP-11 relay-info document, and the price/fee API JSON are all a few KiB; the
+/// largest is a processed avatar PNG, itself capped to 1 MiB at
+/// `nostr::nip05::fetch_avatar`. 8 MiB sits comfortably above all of them (and a
+/// touch above the 4 MiB websocket frame ceiling), so no legitimate response is
+/// ever clipped, while a compromised or malicious authority / gist / relay-info
+/// endpoint can no longer stream a multi-GB body to OOM the wallet.
+pub(crate) const MAX_HTTP_BODY: usize = 8 << 20; // 8 MiB
+
+/// Collect an HTTP response body while refusing to buffer more than
+/// [`MAX_HTTP_BODY`] bytes. First rejects early on an oversized `Content-Length`
+/// (cheap; catches an honest server without reading the body), then bounds the
+/// actual streamed read frame-by-frame so a server that lies about or omits
+/// `Content-Length` still cannot exceed the cap. Returns `None` (a clean error,
+/// never a panic) when the limit is hit or the stream errors. Shared by both the
+/// clearnet and Tor transports so every HTTP consumer is protected.
+pub(crate) async fn collect_body_capped<B>(resp: Response<B>) -> Option<Vec<u8>>
+where
+	B: Body<Data = Bytes> + Unpin,
+{
+	// Early rejection: an honest oversized Content-Length is refused without
+	// ever reading the body.
+	if let Some(len) = resp
+		.headers()
+		.get(hyper::header::CONTENT_LENGTH)
+		.and_then(|v| v.to_str().ok())
+		.and_then(|s| s.parse::<u64>().ok())
+	{
+		if len > MAX_HTTP_BODY as u64 {
+			warn!(
+				"http: response Content-Length {len} exceeds {MAX_HTTP_BODY}-byte cap, rejecting"
+			);
+			return None;
+		}
+	}
+	// Bounded streamed read: catches a lying or absent Content-Length by
+	// aborting the moment the accumulated body would exceed the cap.
+	let mut body = resp.into_body();
+	let mut out: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
+	while let Some(frame) = body.frame().await {
+		let frame = frame.ok()?;
+		if let Ok(data) = frame.into_data() {
+			if out.len() + data.len() > MAX_HTTP_BODY {
+				warn!("http: response body exceeded {MAX_HTTP_BODY}-byte cap mid-stream, aborting");
+				return None;
+			}
+			out.extend_from_slice(&data);
+		}
+	}
+	Some(out)
+}
+
 /// Handles http requests.
 pub struct HttpClient {}
 
@@ -188,6 +243,42 @@ async fn clearnet_once(
 	} else {
 		None
 	};
-	let bytes = resp.into_body().collect().await.ok()?.to_bytes().to_vec();
+	let bytes = collect_body_capped(resp).await?;
 	Some((status, bytes, location))
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+	use super::*;
+
+	/// A body comfortably under the cap collects intact.
+	#[tokio::test]
+	async fn under_cap_passes() {
+		let payload = vec![b'a'; 1024];
+		let resp = Response::new(Full::new(Bytes::from(payload.clone())));
+		let got = collect_body_capped(resp).await;
+		assert_eq!(got, Some(payload));
+	}
+
+	/// A body over the cap with no `Content-Length` is aborted mid-stream and
+	/// returns a clean `None` (no panic).
+	#[tokio::test]
+	async fn over_cap_streamed_rejected() {
+		let payload = vec![b'b'; MAX_HTTP_BODY + 1];
+		let resp = Response::new(Full::new(Bytes::from(payload)));
+		let got = collect_body_capped(resp).await;
+		assert_eq!(got, None);
+	}
+
+	/// An honest but oversized `Content-Length` is refused up front, before the
+	/// body is read.
+	#[tokio::test]
+	async fn over_cap_content_length_rejected() {
+		let resp = Response::builder()
+			.header(hyper::header::CONTENT_LENGTH, (MAX_HTTP_BODY as u64) + 1)
+			.body(Full::new(Bytes::from_static(b"tiny")))
+			.unwrap();
+		let got = collect_body_capped(resp).await;
+		assert_eq!(got, None);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/tor/mod.rs b/src/tor/mod.rs
index 1f11a69e..167ada60 100644
--- a/src/tor/mod.rs
+++ b/src/tor/mod.rs
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 use bytes::Bytes;
-use http_body_util::{BodyExt, Full};
+use http_body_util::Full;
 use hyper_util::rt::TokioIo;
 use log::{debug, warn};
 use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite};
@@ -253,7 +253,9 @@ async fn request_once(
 	} else {
 		None
 	};
-	let bytes = resp.into_body().collect().await.ok()?.to_bytes().to_vec();
+	// Bound the collected body so a hostile exit / endpoint can't OOM the wallet
+	// with a multi-GB stream (shared cap with the clearnet path).
+	let bytes = crate::http::collect_body_capped(resp).await?;
 	Some((status, bytes, location))
 }