@@ -, +, @@ 
---
 .../http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC3Impl.java  | 7 +------
 .../http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC4Impl.java  | 7 +------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
--- a/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC3Impl.java	
+++ a/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC3Impl.java	
@@ -1032,12 +1032,7 @@ public class HTTPHC3Impl extends HTTPHCAbstractImpl {
             // If the request entity is repeatable, we can send it first to
             // our own stream, so we can return it
             if(put.getRequestEntity().isRepeatable()) {
-                ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-                put.getRequestEntity().writeRequest(bos);
-                bos.flush();
-                // We get the posted bytes using the charset that was used to create them
-                putBody.append(new String(bos.toByteArray(),put.getRequestCharSet()));
-                bos.close();
+                putBody.append("<actual file content, not shown here>");
             }
             else {
                 putBody.append("<RequestEntity was not repeatable, cannot view what was sent>");
--- a/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC4Impl.java	
+++ a/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC4Impl.java	
@@ -1336,12 +1336,7 @@ public class HTTPHC4Impl extends HTTPHCAbstractImpl {
             // our own stream, so we can return it
             final HttpEntity entityEntry = entity.getEntity();
             if(entityEntry.isRepeatable()) {
-                ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-                entityEntry.writeTo(bos);
-                bos.flush();
-                // We get the posted bytes using the charset that was used to create them
-                entityBody.append(new String(bos.toByteArray(), charset));
-                bos.close();
+                entityBody.append("<actual file content, not shown here>");
             }
             else { // this probably cannot happen
                 entityBody.append("<RequestEntity was not repeatable, cannot view what was sent>");
--