diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/9818-cloudflare-dns-exhausted-response.yml b/changelogs/fragments/9818-cloudflare-dns-exhausted-response.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a60f3145b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/9818-cloudflare-dns-exhausted-response.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - cloudlare_dns - handle exhausted response stream in case of HTTP errors to show nice error message to the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9782, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9818).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/cloudflare_dns.py b/plugins/modules/cloudflare_dns.py
index a51337e328..e1b75e30ca 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/cloudflare_dns.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cloudflare_dns.py
@@ -551,6 +551,9 @@ class CloudflareAPI(object):
         try:
             content = resp.read()
         except AttributeError:
+            content = None
+
+        if not content:
             if info['body']:
                 content = info['body']
             else: