diff --git a/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md b/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md
index ca32b7eb68..75d76f3e8f 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md
+++ b/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # @actions/artifact Releases
 
+### 2.1.6
+
+- Will retry on invalid request responses.
+
+### 2.1.5
+
+- Bumped `archiver` dependency to 7.0.1
+
 ### 2.1.4
 
 - Adds info-level logging for zip extraction
@@ -11,9 +19,9 @@
 ### 2.1.2
 
 - Updated the stream extract functionality to use `unzip.Parse()` instead of `unzip.Extract()` for greater control of unzipping artifacts
-  
+
 ### 2.1.1
- 
+
 - Updated `isGhes` check to include `.ghe.com` and `.ghe.localhost` as accepted hosts
 
 ### 2.1.0
diff --git a/packages/artifact/__tests__/artifact-http-client.test.ts b/packages/artifact/__tests__/artifact-http-client.test.ts
index e676834636..feb2b04a02 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/__tests__/artifact-http-client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/artifact/__tests__/artifact-http-client.test.ts
@@ -116,6 +116,54 @@ describe('artifact-http-client', () => {
     expect(mockPost).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
   })
 
+  it('should retry if invalid body response', async () => {
+    const mockPost = jest
+      .fn(() => {
+        const msgSucceeded = new http.IncomingMessage(new net.Socket())
+        msgSucceeded.statusCode = 200
+        return {
+          message: msgSucceeded,
+          readBody: async () => {
+            return Promise.resolve(
+              `{"ok": true, "signedUploadUrl": "http://localhost:8080/upload"}`
+            )
+          }
+        }
+      })
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => {
+        const msgFailed = new http.IncomingMessage(new net.Socket())
+        msgFailed.statusCode = 502
+        msgFailed.statusMessage = 'Bad Gateway'
+        return {
+          message: msgFailed,
+          readBody: async () => {
+            return Promise.resolve('💥')
+          }
+        }
+      })
+    const mockHttpClient = (
+      HttpClient as unknown as jest.Mock
+    ).mockImplementation(() => {
+      return {
+        post: mockPost
+      }
+    })
+
+    const client = internalArtifactTwirpClient(clientOptions)
+    const artifact = await client.CreateArtifact({
+      workflowRunBackendId: '1234',
+      workflowJobRunBackendId: '5678',
+      name: 'artifact',
+      version: 4
+    })
+
+    expect(mockHttpClient).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(artifact).toBeDefined()
+    expect(artifact.ok).toBe(true)
+    expect(artifact.signedUploadUrl).toBe('http://localhost:8080/upload')
+    expect(mockPost).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
   it('should fail if the request fails 5 times', async () => {
     const mockPost = jest.fn(() => {
       const msgFailed = new http.IncomingMessage(new net.Socket())
diff --git a/packages/artifact/package.json b/packages/artifact/package.json
index ab60a27100..83d56a8359 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/package.json
+++ b/packages/artifact/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@actions/artifact",
-  "version": "2.1.5",
+  "version": "2.1.6",
   "preview": true,
   "description": "Actions artifact lib",
   "keywords": [
@@ -62,4 +62,4 @@
     "typedoc-plugin-markdown": "^3.17.1",
     "typescript": "^5.2.2"
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/artifact-twirp-client.ts b/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/artifact-twirp-client.ts
index 1f987a1a35..00c65bc71b 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/artifact-twirp-client.ts
+++ b/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/artifact-twirp-client.ts
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ class ArtifactHttpClient implements Rpc {
       } catch (error) {
         if (error instanceof SyntaxError) {
           debug(`Raw Body: ${rawBody}`)
-          throw error
         }
 
         if (error instanceof UsageError) {