diff --git a/weed/filer/zip_extract.go b/weed/filer/zip_extract.go
index e88879c5b1..cd3c7bb0de 100644
--- a/weed/filer/zip_extract.go
+++ b/weed/filer/zip_extract.go
@@ -20,17 +20,17 @@ const (
 
 // SpoolZipReader buffers r into a seekable source for zip.NewReader: memory for
 // small archives, a temp file otherwise. The returned cleanup releases it.
-func SpoolZipReader(r io.Reader, size int64) (ra io.ReaderAt, n int64, cleanup func(), err error) {
+func SpoolZipReader(r io.Reader) (ra io.ReaderAt, n int64, cleanup func(), err error) {
 	nop := func() {}
-	if size >= 0 && size <= zipSpoolMemoryLimit {
-		var buf []byte
-		if buf, err = io.ReadAll(r); err != nil {
-			return nil, 0, nop, err
-		}
-		return bytes.NewReader(buf), int64(len(buf)), nop, nil
+	head, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(r, zipSpoolMemoryLimit+1))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, nop, err
 	}
-	var f *os.File
-	if f, err = os.CreateTemp("", "seaweedfs-extract-*.zip"); err != nil {
+	if int64(len(head)) <= zipSpoolMemoryLimit {
+		return bytes.NewReader(head), int64(len(head)), nop, nil
+	}
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp("", "seaweedfs-extract-*.zip")
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, 0, nop, err
 	}
 	cleanup = func() {
@@ -38,7 +38,16 @@ func SpoolZipReader(r io.Reader, size int64) (ra io.ReaderAt, n int64, cleanup f
 		f.Close()
 		os.Remove(name)
 	}
-	if n, err = io.Copy(f, r); err != nil {
+	if _, err = f.Write(head); err == nil {
+		var rest int64
+		if rest, err = io.Copy(f, io.LimitReader(r, ZipExtractMaxBytes+1)); err == nil {
+			n = int64(len(head)) + rest
+		}
+	}
+	if err == nil && n > ZipExtractMaxBytes {
+		err = fmt.Errorf("zip archive exceeds %d bytes", ZipExtractMaxBytes)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
 		cleanup()
 		return nil, 0, nop, err
 	}
diff --git a/weed/filer/zip_extract_test.go b/weed/filer/zip_extract_test.go
index dfd6e26e03..c1cde117e7 100644
--- a/weed/filer/zip_extract_test.go
+++ b/weed/filer/zip_extract_test.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func TestSanitizeZipMemberName(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestSpoolZipReaderMemory(t *testing.T) {
 	data := []byte(strings.Repeat("x", 1024))
-	ra, n, cleanup, err := SpoolZipReader(bytes.NewReader(data), int64(len(data)))
+	ra, n, cleanup, err := SpoolZipReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("spool: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func TestSpoolZipReaderMemory(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestSpoolZipReaderTempFile(t *testing.T) {
 	data := bytes.Repeat([]byte("y"), zipSpoolMemoryLimit+1)
-	ra, n, cleanup, err := SpoolZipReader(bytes.NewReader(data), int64(len(data)))
+	ra, n, cleanup, err := SpoolZipReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("spool: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ func TestSpoolZipReaderRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 	w.Write([]byte("hello"))
 	zw.Close()
 
-	ra, n, cleanup, err := SpoolZipReader(bytes.NewReader(buf.Bytes()), int64(buf.Len()))
+	ra, n, cleanup, err := SpoolZipReader(bytes.NewReader(buf.Bytes()))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("spool: %v", err)
 	}
diff --git a/weed/server/filer_server_handlers_extract.go b/weed/server/filer_server_handlers_extract.go
index 5868e41ee6..19c1194a0f 100644
--- a/weed/server/filer_server_handlers_extract.go
+++ b/weed/server/filer_server_handlers_extract.go
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ func (fs *FilerServer) extractZipArchive(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWri
 		}
 	}
 
-	ra, size, cleanup, err := filer.SpoolZipReader(reader, contentLength)
+	ra, size, cleanup, err := filer.SpoolZipReader(reader)
 	if err != nil {
 		writeJsonError(w, r, http.StatusInternalServerError, fmt.Errorf("read input: %w", err))
 		return