diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandler.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandler.java
index 1a78a4c8c0452..2408f83d2b54e 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandler.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandler.java
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ public void handleRequest(RestRequest request, RestChannel channel, NodeClient c
         handler.handleRequest(request, channel, client);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean supportsContentStream() {
+        return handler.supportsContentStream();
+    }
+
     /**
      * This does a very basic pass at validating that a header's value contains only expected characters according to RFC-5987, and those
      * that it references.
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandlerTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandlerTests.java
index 0a8ace71d8860..0dc108ff587cd 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandlerTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/DeprecationRestHandlerTests.java
@@ -24,22 +24,30 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.DeprecationLogger;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
 
+import org.junit.Before;
 import org.mockito.InOrder;
 
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.inOrder;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
 /**
  * Tests {@link DeprecationRestHandler}.
  */
 public class DeprecationRestHandlerTests extends ESTestCase {
 
-    private final RestHandler handler = mock(RestHandler.class);
+    private RestHandler handler;
     /**
      * Note: Headers should only use US ASCII (and this inevitably becomes one!).
      */
     private final String deprecationMessage = randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 30);
-    private final DeprecationLogger deprecationLogger = mock(DeprecationLogger.class);
+    private DeprecationLogger deprecationLogger;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setup() {
+        handler = mock(RestHandler.class);
+        deprecationLogger = mock(DeprecationLogger.class);
+    }
 
     public void testNullHandler() {
         expectThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> new DeprecationRestHandler(null, deprecationMessage, deprecationLogger));
@@ -114,6 +122,16 @@ public void testInvalidHeaderValueEmpty() {
         expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> DeprecationRestHandler.requireValidHeader(blank));
     }
 
+    public void testSupportsContentStreamTrue() {
+        when(handler.supportsContentStream()).thenReturn(true);
+        assertTrue(new DeprecationRestHandler(handler, deprecationMessage, deprecationLogger).supportsContentStream());
+    }
+
+    public void testSupportsContentStreamFalse() {
+        when(handler.supportsContentStream()).thenReturn(false);
+        assertFalse(new DeprecationRestHandler(handler, deprecationMessage, deprecationLogger).supportsContentStream());
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@code ASCIIHeaderGenerator} only uses characters expected to be valid in headers (simplified US-ASCII).
      */