diff --git a/api/next/57786.txt b/api/next/57786.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..358a731d1aac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/next/57786.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pkg net/http, method (*ResponseController) EnableFullDuplex() error #57786
diff --git a/src/net/http/responsecontroller.go b/src/net/http/responsecontroller.go
index 018bdc00eb77a..92276ffaf2344 100644
--- a/src/net/http/responsecontroller.go
+++ b/src/net/http/responsecontroller.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ type ResponseController struct {
 //	Hijack() (net.Conn, *bufio.ReadWriter, error)
 //	SetReadDeadline(deadline time.Time) error
 //	SetWriteDeadline(deadline time.Time) error
+//	EnableFullDuplex() error
 //
 // If the ResponseWriter does not support a method, ResponseController returns
 // an error matching ErrNotSupported.
@@ -115,6 +116,30 @@ func (c *ResponseController) SetWriteDeadline(deadline time.Time) error {
 	}
 }
 
+// EnableFullDuplex indicates that the request handler will interleave reads from Request.Body
+// with writes to the ResponseWriter.
+//
+// For HTTP/1 requests, the Go HTTP server by default consumes any unread portion of
+// the request body before beginning to write the response, preventing handlers from
+// concurrently reading from the request and writing the response.
+// Calling EnableFullDuplex disables this behavior and permits handlers to continue to read
+// from the request while concurrently writing the response.
+//
+// For HTTP/2 requests, the Go HTTP server always permits concurrent reads and responses.
+func (c *ResponseController) EnableFullDuplex() error {
+	rw := c.rw
+	for {
+		switch t := rw.(type) {
+		case interface{ EnableFullDuplex() error }:
+			return t.EnableFullDuplex()
+		case rwUnwrapper:
+			rw = t.Unwrap()
+		default:
+			return errNotSupported()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // errNotSupported returns an error that Is ErrNotSupported,
 // but is not == to it.
 func errNotSupported() error {
diff --git a/src/net/http/responsecontroller_test.go b/src/net/http/responsecontroller_test.go
index 0dca7332b7967..ee8b55a89ff25 100644
--- a/src/net/http/responsecontroller_test.go
+++ b/src/net/http/responsecontroller_test.go
@@ -263,3 +263,51 @@ func testWrappedResponseController(t *testing.T, mode testMode) {
 	io.Copy(io.Discard, res.Body)
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 }
+
+func TestResponseControllerEnableFullDuplex(t *testing.T) {
+	run(t, testResponseControllerEnableFullDuplex)
+}
+func testResponseControllerEnableFullDuplex(t *testing.T, mode testMode) {
+	cst := newClientServerTest(t, mode, HandlerFunc(func(w ResponseWriter, req *Request) {
+		ctl := NewResponseController(w)
+		if err := ctl.EnableFullDuplex(); err != nil {
+			// TODO: Drop test for HTTP/2 when x/net is updated to support
+			// EnableFullDuplex. Since HTTP/2 supports full duplex by default,
+			// the rest of the test is fine; it's just the EnableFullDuplex call
+			// that fails.
+			if mode != http2Mode {
+				t.Errorf("ctl.EnableFullDuplex() = %v, want nil", err)
+			}
+		}
+		w.WriteHeader(200)
+		ctl.Flush()
+		for {
+			var buf [1]byte
+			n, err := req.Body.Read(buf[:])
+			if n != 1 || err != nil {
+				break
+			}
+			w.Write(buf[:])
+			ctl.Flush()
+		}
+	}))
+	pr, pw := io.Pipe()
+	res, err := cst.c.Post(cst.ts.URL, "text/apocryphal", pr)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer res.Body.Close()
+	for i := byte(0); i < 10; i++ {
+		if _, err := pw.Write([]byte{i}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Write: %v", err)
+		}
+		var buf [1]byte
+		if n, err := res.Body.Read(buf[:]); n != 1 || err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Read: %v, %v", n, err)
+		}
+		if buf[0] != i {
+			t.Fatalf("read byte %v, want %v", buf[0], i)
+		}
+	}
+	pw.Close()
+}
diff --git a/src/net/http/server.go b/src/net/http/server.go
index 1b3b2f2e3a0a5..9bd381ff48bf5 100644
--- a/src/net/http/server.go
+++ b/src/net/http/server.go
@@ -460,6 +460,10 @@ type response struct {
 	// Content-Length.
 	closeAfterReply bool
 
+	// When fullDuplex is false (the default), we consume any remaining
+	// request body before starting to write a response.
+	fullDuplex bool
+
 	// requestBodyLimitHit is set by requestTooLarge when
 	// maxBytesReader hits its max size. It is checked in
 	// WriteHeader, to make sure we don't consume the
@@ -497,6 +501,11 @@ func (c *response) SetWriteDeadline(deadline time.Time) error {
 	return c.conn.rwc.SetWriteDeadline(deadline)
 }
 
+func (c *response) EnableFullDuplex() error {
+	c.fullDuplex = true
+	return nil
+}
+
 // TrailerPrefix is a magic prefix for ResponseWriter.Header map keys
 // that, if present, signals that the map entry is actually for
 // the response trailers, and not the response headers. The prefix
@@ -1354,14 +1363,14 @@ func (cw *chunkWriter) writeHeader(p []byte) {
 		w.closeAfterReply = true
 	}
 
-	// Per RFC 2616, we should consume the request body before
-	// replying, if the handler hasn't already done so. But we
-	// don't want to do an unbounded amount of reading here for
-	// DoS reasons, so we only try up to a threshold.
-	// TODO(bradfitz): where does RFC 2616 say that? See Issue 15527
-	// about HTTP/1.x Handlers concurrently reading and writing, like
-	// HTTP/2 handlers can do. Maybe this code should be relaxed?
-	if w.req.ContentLength != 0 && !w.closeAfterReply {
+	// We do this by default because there are a number of clients that
+	// send a full request before starting to read the response, and they
+	// can deadlock if we start writing the response with unconsumed body
+	// remaining. See Issue 15527 for some history.
+	//
+	// If full duplex mode has been enabled with ResponseController.EnableFullDuplex,
+	// then leave the request body alone.
+	if w.req.ContentLength != 0 && !w.closeAfterReply && !w.fullDuplex {
 		var discard, tooBig bool
 
 		switch bdy := w.req.Body.(type) {