diff --git a/internal/handlers/event_body.go b/internal/handlers/event_body.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..73dde40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/handlers/event_body.go
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+package handlers
+
+import (
+	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/chi"
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+	"gorm.io/gorm"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
+)
+
+// eventBodyQuery reads one event's stored body as bytes. The cast
+// to blob is what makes the driver hand back the stored bytes
+// rather than a string conversion, so Content-Length taken from
+// the result matches what goes on the wire. The soft-delete
+// predicate is spelled out because Raw bypasses GORM's default
+// scope, and it is what stops a reaped event still being
+// downloadable.
+const eventBodyQuery = "SELECT cast(body as blob) " +
+	"FROM events WHERE id = ? AND webhook_id = ? AND deleted_at IS NULL"
+
+// HandleEventBodyDownload serves one event's stored body in
+// full, which the event log page cannot: it caps each rendered
+// body at maxRenderedBodyBytes.
+//
+// The bytes are attacker-supplied — anyone who can reach the
+// public receiver chooses them — and this route hands them back
+// inside the operator's own authenticated origin, so the
+// response is deliberately not renderable. Content-Disposition
+// makes the browser download rather than display it, and the
+// octet-stream type plus nosniff stop it being interpreted as
+// HTML or script. Without those a stored payload would execute
+// as the logged-in operator. The application's CSP does not
+// help here: script-src allows 'unsafe-inline' from 'self', so
+// a document served from this origin could run its own inline
+// script.
+func (h *Handlers) HandleEventBodyDownload() http.HandlerFunc {
+	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		webhook, ok := h.ownedWebhook(w, r)
+		if !ok {
+			return
+		}
+
+		// Parsing the id before use serves two purposes: a
+		// malformed id can never reach the SQL or the response
+		// header, and the canonical form below is drawn from
+		// uuid's own fixed alphabet rather than from the
+		// request, so the Content-Disposition value cannot be
+		// steered by a client.
+		eventID, err := uuid.Parse(chi.URLParam(r, "eventID"))
+		if err != nil {
+			http.NotFound(w, r)
+
+			return
+		}
+
+		h.serveEventBody(w, r, webhook, eventID.String())
+	}
+}
+
+// serveEventBody writes the named event's stored body to w.
+//
+// The event must belong to webhook, which is what keeps this
+// route from reading any event in the system by id alone. Two
+// things enforce that and they are not equally strong. The
+// operative one is that events live in a per-webhook SQLite
+// file, so a sibling webhook's event is not in the database
+// being queried at all. The webhook_id predicate on the query
+// below is the second guard, and it is currently redundant
+// against that isolation; it is there so the scoping survives
+// any future change that puts more than one webhook's events in
+// one file.
+//
+// The body is read in one query and held whole in memory while
+// it is written. That is the bound: one body per concurrent
+// download, and a body is capped at 1 MB when it is ingested,
+// so a download cannot cost more than that. There is no
+// cheaper bound available — database/sql exposes no incremental
+// handle on a SQLite BLOB, and reading byte ranges with substr
+// does not avoid the cost either, because SQLite materialises
+// the whole column value to evaluate each substr call. Range
+// reads only pay for that materialisation once per range.
+//
+// One consequence is worth keeping in view: the read finishes
+// before the client is written to, so no read lock is held for
+// the length of a slow download. These per-webhook databases
+// run in SQLite's default journal mode rather than WAL, so a
+// lock held that long would block the receiver from recording
+// new events.
+func (h *Handlers) serveEventBody(
+	w http.ResponseWriter,
+	r *http.Request,
+	webhook database.Webhook,
+	eventID string,
+) {
+	if !h.dbMgr.DBExists(webhook.ID) {
+		http.NotFound(w, r)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	webhookDB, err := h.dbMgr.GetDB(webhook.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.serverError(w, "failed to get webhook database", err)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	body, found, err := eventBody(webhookDB, webhook.ID, eventID)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.serverError(w, "failed to read event body", err)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	// A miss is a 404 whether the event belongs to another
+	// webhook or does not exist at all, so the response does
+	// not report which. Reading the body before any header is
+	// written is also what keeps an event reaped mid-request
+	// from producing a torn response: either the read finds the
+	// row and the whole body is served, or it does not and the
+	// response is a clean 404.
+	if !found {
+		http.NotFound(w, r)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	setEventBodyHeaders(w, eventID, int64(len(body)))
+
+	_, err = w.Write(body)
+	if err != nil {
+		// The status and Content-Length are already committed,
+		// so the client sees a short download. There is no way
+		// to report a 500 from here; the log is the record.
+		h.log.Error(
+			"failed to write event body",
+			"webhook_id", webhook.ID,
+			"event_id", eventID,
+			"error", err,
+		)
+	}
+}
+
+// eventBody returns an event's stored body and whether the event
+// exists within the webhook.
+func eventBody(
+	webhookDB *gorm.DB,
+	webhookID, eventID string,
+) ([]byte, bool, error) {
+	var body []byte
+
+	err := webhookDB.Raw(
+		eventBodyQuery, eventID, webhookID,
+	).Row().Scan(&body)
+
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, false, nil
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+
+	return body, true, nil
+}
+
+// setEventBodyHeaders applies the response headers that make
+// this route safe to hand attacker-supplied bytes through. See
+// HandleEventBodyDownload for why they are a security control
+// and not a formatting choice.
+//
+// nosniff is also set by the global SecurityHeaders middleware.
+// It is repeated here so the guarantee belongs to the route
+// that needs it rather than to a middleware someone could
+// reorder or scope away.
+func setEventBodyHeaders(
+	w http.ResponseWriter,
+	eventID string,
+	size int64,
+) {
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
+	w.Header().Set("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff")
+	w.Header().Set(
+		"Content-Disposition",
+		`attachment; filename="webhooker-event-`+eventID+`.bin"`,
+	)
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Length", strconv.FormatInt(size, 10))
+}
diff --git a/internal/handlers/event_body_test.go b/internal/handlers/event_body_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4656ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/handlers/event_body_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,506 @@
+package handlers_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/url"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/chi"
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"gorm.io/gorm/clause"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/handlers"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/session"
+)
+
+// paramEventID is the chi URL parameter the body download
+// handler reads.
+const paramEventID = "eventID"
+
+// otherTestUserID owns webhooks the session user must not be
+// able to read.
+const otherTestUserID = "other-user-id"
+
+// seedWebhookFor inserts a webhook owned by the given user.
+func seedWebhookFor(
+	t *testing.T,
+	db *database.Database,
+	userID string,
+) *database.Webhook {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	wh := &database.Webhook{
+		UserID: userID,
+		Name:   "wh-" + userID,
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(
+		t,
+		db.DB().Omit(clause.Associations).Create(wh).Error,
+	)
+
+	return wh
+}
+
+// fetchEventBody runs the real download handler as the test user
+// for the given source and event ids.
+func fetchEventBody(
+	t *testing.T,
+	h *handlers.Handlers,
+	sess *session.Session,
+	sourceID, eventID string,
+) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	// The path is escaped and the raw id goes in the route
+	// context, which is what chi hands a handler: the param is
+	// already percent-decoded by the time it is read.
+	req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
+		context.Background(),
+		http.MethodGet,
+		"/source/"+url.PathEscape(sourceID)+
+			"/logs/"+url.PathEscape(eventID)+"/body",
+		nil,
+	)
+
+	for _, c := range authenticatedCookies(
+		t, sess, deleteTestUserID, deleteTestUsername,
+	) {
+		req.AddCookie(c)
+	}
+
+	rctx := chi.NewRouteContext()
+	rctx.URLParams.Add(paramSourceID, sourceID)
+	rctx.URLParams.Add(paramEventID, eventID)
+
+	req = req.WithContext(
+		context.WithValue(
+			req.Context(), chi.RouteCtxKey, rctx,
+		),
+	)
+
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.HandleEventBodyDownload().ServeHTTP(w, req)
+
+	return w
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ServesOversizeBodyInFull is the
+// capability the render cap took away: a body far above what the
+// event log page will show comes back whole and byte-identical,
+// with the headers that keep it from being rendered.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ServesOversizeBodyInFull(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	// Far above the render cap, with multibyte runes and a
+	// distinctive tail, so a body that the log page can only
+	// show a slice of comes back whole and in order.
+	const sentinel = "TAIL-SENTINEL-1f4a9c"
+
+	stored := strings.Repeat("A", 200*1024) +
+		strings.Repeat(snowman, 1000) + sentinel
+
+	wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, stored)
+
+	w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
+
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+	assert.Greater(t, len(stored), bodyCap)
+	assert.Equal(t, stored, w.Body.String())
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, strconv.Itoa(len(stored)),
+		w.Header().Get("Content-Length"),
+	)
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_BodiesRoundTripByteIdentical
+// covers the sizes and byte values a stored body can actually
+// take: empty, one byte, either side of the render cap, and
+// bytes that are not text at all. Content-Length has to equal
+// the bytes written in every case, since it is derived from the
+// same read that produces them.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_BodiesRoundTripByteIdentical(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	// A NUL, invalid UTF-8 and a multibyte rune, so nothing on
+	// the path can be treating the body as text.
+	binary := "\x00\x01\xff\xfe" + snowman + "\x00tail"
+
+	cases := map[string]string{
+		"empty":         "",
+		"single byte":   "x",
+		"one below cap": strings.Repeat("b", bodyCap-1),
+		"exactly cap":   strings.Repeat("c", bodyCap),
+		"one above cap": strings.Repeat("d", bodyCap+1),
+		"binary":        binary,
+	}
+
+	for name, stored := range cases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			var (
+				h     *handlers.Handlers
+				sess  *session.Session
+				db    *database.Database
+				dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+			)
+
+			app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+			app.RequireStart()
+
+			t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+			wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
+			evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, stored)
+
+			w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
+
+			require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+			assert.Equal(t, stored, w.Body.String())
+			assert.Equal(
+				t, strconv.Itoa(len(stored)),
+				w.Header().Get("Content-Length"),
+			)
+			assert.Equal(
+				t, len(stored), w.Body.Len(),
+				"Content-Length must equal bytes written",
+			)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_HeadersAreNotRenderable pins the
+// response headers that stop attacker-supplied bytes executing
+// in the operator's own origin. They are a security control, not
+// presentation.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_HeadersAreNotRenderable(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, `{"small":true}`)
+
+	w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
+
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, "application/octet-stream",
+		w.Header().Get("Content-Type"),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, "nosniff",
+		w.Header().Get("X-Content-Type-Options"),
+	)
+
+	disposition := w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition")
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		`attachment; filename="webhooker-event-`+evt.ID+`.bin"`,
+		disposition,
+	)
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ScriptBodyStaysInert proves a
+// stored HTML payload is handed back as an attachment of opaque
+// bytes rather than as anything a browser will execute. The
+// bytes themselves are unaltered: this route reports what was
+// delivered.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ScriptBodyStaysInert(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	const payload = `<html><script>alert(document.cookie)` +
+		`</script></html>`
+
+	wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, payload)
+
+	w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
+
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+	assert.Equal(t, payload, w.Body.String())
+
+	contentType := w.Header().Get("Content-Type")
+	assert.Equal(t, "application/octet-stream", contentType)
+	assert.NotContains(t, contentType, "html")
+	assert.NotContains(t, contentType, "xml")
+	assert.NotContains(t, contentType, "javascript")
+	assert.Contains(
+		t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"), "attachment",
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, "nosniff",
+		w.Header().Get("X-Content-Type-Options"),
+	)
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_OtherUsersEvent404s is the
+// authorization test the definition of done asks for: an event
+// stored under a webhook the session user does not own is not
+// readable, and the miss does not distinguish itself from a
+// nonexistent one.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_OtherUsersEvent404s(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	const theirPayload = "OTHER-USERS-PAYLOAD-8b1d"
+
+	theirs := seedWebhookFor(t, db, otherTestUserID)
+	evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, theirs.ID, theirPayload)
+
+	w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, theirs.ID, evt.ID)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
+	assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), theirPayload)
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_EventOfAnotherWebhook404s pins
+// that holding a valid event id is not enough: the event has to
+// belong to the webhook in the path. Both webhooks here are the
+// session user's and both have event databases, so the
+// ownership check cannot be what produces the 404.
+//
+// What does produce it is the per-webhook database file rather
+// than the webhook_id predicate on the query — removing that
+// predicate leaves this test green, because the sibling's event
+// is in a different file. The test is kept as the behavioural
+// guard the route owes; see serveEventBody for which mechanism
+// is load-bearing.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_EventOfAnotherWebhook404s(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	const other = "BELONGS-TO-THE-OTHER-WEBHOOK-3c7e"
+
+	mine := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, mine.ID, `{"mine":true}`)
+
+	sibling := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, sibling.ID, other)
+
+	w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, mine.ID, evt.ID)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
+	assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), other)
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_UnknownEvent404s covers the plain
+// miss, including an id that is not a uuid at all and so never
+// reaches the query or the response header.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_UnknownEvent404s(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, `{"mine":true}`)
+
+	for _, id := range []string{
+		uuid.New().String(),
+		`../../etc/passwd`,
+		"not-a-uuid",
+		`x"; rm -rf /`,
+	} {
+		w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, id)
+
+		assert.Equal(
+			t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code,
+			"event id %q", id,
+		)
+		assert.Empty(
+			t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"),
+			"event id %q must not reach a header", id,
+		)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ReapedEvent404s pins what happens
+// when the retention reaper takes an event out from under this
+// route. The body is read in one query before any header is
+// written, so a reaped event cannot produce a partial download:
+// it is a clean 404 with no Content-Length and no
+// Content-Disposition. Both removals the codebase performs are
+// covered — the reaper hard-deletes, and a soft-deleted row is
+// excluded by the query's own deleted_at predicate rather than
+// by GORM's default scope, which Raw bypasses.
+func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ReapedEvent404s(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for name, hard := range map[string]bool{
+		"soft deleted": false,
+		"hard deleted": true,
+	} {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			var (
+				h     *handlers.Handlers
+				sess  *session.Session
+				db    *database.Database
+				dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+			)
+
+			app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+			app.RequireStart()
+
+			t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+			const payload = "REAPED-PAYLOAD-4d2a"
+
+			wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
+			evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, payload)
+
+			webhookDB, err := dbMgr.GetDB(wh.ID)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			del := webhookDB
+			if hard {
+				del = del.Unscoped()
+			}
+
+			require.NoError(
+				t,
+				del.Delete(&database.Event{}, "id = ?", evt.ID).
+					Error,
+			)
+
+			w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
+			assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), payload)
+			assert.Empty(t, w.Header().Get("Content-Length"))
+			assert.Empty(
+				t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"),
+			)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestHandleSourceLogs_TruncationMarkerLinksToDownload proves
+// the page tells the reader where the rest of the body is, and
+// only when there is a rest to fetch.
+func TestHandleSourceLogs_TruncationMarkerLinksToDownload(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h     *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	big := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	bigEvt := seedEventWithBody(
+		t, dbMgr, big.ID, strings.Repeat("A", 4*bodyCap),
+	)
+
+	page := renderSourceLogsPage(t, h, sess, big.ID)
+	assert.Contains(
+		t, page,
+		"/source/"+big.ID+"/logs/"+bigEvt.ID+"/body",
+	)
+
+	small := seedWebhook(t, db)
+	smallEvt := seedEventWithBody(
+		t, dbMgr, small.ID, `{"kept":"whole"}`,
+	)
+
+	page = renderSourceLogsPage(t, h, sess, small.ID)
+	assert.NotContains(
+		t, page,
+		"/source/"+small.ID+"/logs/"+smallEvt.ID+"/body",
+	)
+}
diff --git a/internal/handlers/event_log_view_test.go b/internal/handlers/event_log_view_test.go
index 7ffd2fb..e1d5a41 100644
--- a/internal/handlers/event_log_view_test.go
+++ b/internal/handlers/event_log_view_test.go
@@ -25,13 +25,14 @@ const bodyCap = handlers.MaxRenderedBodyBytesForTest
 const snowman = "☃"
 
 // seedEventWithBody records one event with the given body in the
-// webhook's own database.
+// webhook's own database and returns it, so a caller that needs
+// the generated event id can have it.
 func seedEventWithBody(
 	t *testing.T,
 	dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager,
 	webhookID string,
 	body string,
-) {
+) *database.Event {
 	t.Helper()
 
 	webhookDB, err := dbMgr.GetDB(webhookID)
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ func seedEventWithBody(
 	require.NoError(t, webhookDB.Omit(
 		clause.Associations,
 	).Create(event).Error)
+
+	return event
 }
 
 // seedAndProject stores one body and returns the projection the
diff --git a/internal/handlers/source_management.go b/internal/handlers/source_management.go
index b538bcd..0243b76 100644
--- a/internal/handlers/source_management.go
+++ b/internal/handlers/source_management.go
@@ -713,29 +713,55 @@ func (h *Handlers) evictArchiveWriterIfUnused(webhookID string) {
 	h.evictArchiveWriter(webhookID)
 }
 
+// ownedWebhook resolves the request's sourceID parameter to a
+// webhook the session's user owns.
+//
+// Ownership and existence are decided by one query, so a
+// webhook belonging to another user is indistinguishable from
+// one that does not exist: both are a 404, and neither confirms
+// the id. Callers that reach further into a webhook's data —
+// the event log page and the event body download — share this
+// one check rather than restating it, so the download cannot
+// come to authorize differently from the page that links to it.
+//
+// It reports false once it has written the response, which is a
+// redirect to the login page for an unauthenticated request and
+// a 404 otherwise. The caller returns without writing more.
+func (h *Handlers) ownedWebhook(
+	w http.ResponseWriter,
+	r *http.Request,
+) (database.Webhook, bool) {
+	var webhook database.Webhook
+
+	userID, ok := h.getUserID(r)
+	if !ok {
+		http.Redirect(
+			w, r, "/pages/login", http.StatusSeeOther,
+		)
+
+		return database.Webhook{}, false
+	}
+
+	sourceID := chi.URLParam(r, "sourceID")
+
+	err := h.db.DB().Where(
+		"id = ? AND user_id = ?", sourceID, userID,
+	).First(&webhook).Error
+	if err != nil {
+		http.NotFound(w, r)
+
+		return database.Webhook{}, false
+	}
+
+	return webhook, true
+}
+
 // HandleSourceLogs shows the request/response logs for a
 // webhook.
 func (h *Handlers) HandleSourceLogs() http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		userID, ok := h.getUserID(r)
+		webhook, ok := h.ownedWebhook(w, r)
 		if !ok {
-			http.Redirect(
-				w, r, "/pages/login", http.StatusSeeOther,
-			)
-
-			return
-		}
-
-		sourceID := chi.URLParam(r, "sourceID")
-
-		var webhook database.Webhook
-
-		err := h.db.DB().Where(
-			"id = ? AND user_id = ?", sourceID, userID,
-		).First(&webhook).Error
-		if err != nil {
-			http.NotFound(w, r)
-
 			return
 		}
 
diff --git a/internal/server/routes.go b/internal/server/routes.go
index b282e12..a8e4b01 100644
--- a/internal/server/routes.go
+++ b/internal/server/routes.go
@@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ func (s *Server) setupSourceRoutes() {
 		r.Post("/edit", s.h.HandleSourceEditSubmit())
 		r.Post("/delete", s.h.HandleSourceDelete())
 		r.Get("/logs", s.h.HandleSourceLogs())
+		// The log page renders each body only up to its cap, so
+		// this is the only route that serves a whole one. It
+		// belongs to this group for its RequireAuth and
+		// NoCache; see HandleEventBodyDownload for the headers
+		// that keep the bytes it returns inert.
+		r.Get(
+			"/logs/{eventID}/body",
+			s.h.HandleEventBodyDownload(),
+		)
 		r.Post(
 			"/entrypoints",
 			s.h.HandleEntrypointCreate(),
diff --git a/internal/server/routes_test.go b/internal/server/routes_test.go
index 1c5f72d..81b6cf0 100644
--- a/internal/server/routes_test.go
+++ b/internal/server/routes_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"net/url"
 	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"go.uber.org/fx"
 	"go.uber.org/fx/fxtest"
+	"gorm.io/gorm/clause"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/config"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/delivery"
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ type testEnv struct {
 	router http.Handler
 	sess   *session.Session
 	db     *database.Database
+	dbMgr  *database.WebhookDBManager
 }
 
 // newTestEnv wires the dependency graph with fx and builds the
@@ -57,12 +60,13 @@ func newTestEnv(t *testing.T) *testEnv {
 	t.Helper()
 
 	var (
-		log  *logger.Logger
-		cfg  *config.Config
-		mw   *middleware.Middleware
-		hnd  *handlers.Handlers
-		sess *session.Session
-		db   *database.Database
+		log   *logger.Logger
+		cfg   *config.Config
+		mw    *middleware.Middleware
+		hnd   *handlers.Handlers
+		sess  *session.Session
+		db    *database.Database
+		dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
 	)
 
 	app := fxtest.New(
@@ -85,7 +89,7 @@ func newTestEnv(t *testing.T) *testEnv {
 			middleware.New,
 			handlers.New,
 		),
-		fx.Populate(&log, &cfg, &mw, &hnd, &sess, &db),
+		fx.Populate(&log, &cfg, &mw, &hnd, &sess, &db, &dbMgr),
 	)
 	app.RequireStart()
 	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
@@ -94,6 +98,7 @@ func newTestEnv(t *testing.T) *testEnv {
 		router: server.NewRouterForTest(log.Get(), cfg, mw, hnd),
 		sess:   sess,
 		db:     db,
+		dbMgr:  dbMgr,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -232,6 +237,49 @@ func (e *testEnv) seedUser(
 	return user.ID, hash
 }
 
+// seedWebhook creates a webhook owned by the given user.
+func (e *testEnv) seedWebhook(
+	t *testing.T,
+	userID string,
+) *database.Webhook {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	wh := &database.Webhook{UserID: userID, Name: "routed"}
+
+	require.NoError(
+		t,
+		e.db.DB().Omit(clause.Associations).Create(wh).Error,
+	)
+
+	return wh
+}
+
+// seedEvent records one event with the given body in a webhook's
+// own database.
+func (e *testEnv) seedEvent(
+	t *testing.T,
+	webhookID, body string,
+) *database.Event {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	webhookDB, err := e.dbMgr.GetDB(webhookID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	event := &database.Event{
+		WebhookID:   webhookID,
+		Method:      http.MethodPost,
+		Body:        body,
+		ContentType: "application/octet-stream",
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(
+		t,
+		webhookDB.Omit(clause.Associations).Create(event).Error,
+	)
+
+	return event
+}
+
 // storedHash reads the current password hash for a username.
 func (e *testEnv) storedHash(t *testing.T, username string) string {
 	t.Helper()
@@ -381,3 +429,95 @@ func TestPasswordChange_UnderLimit_Succeeds(t *testing.T) {
 		"an under-limit password change should still apply",
 	)
 }
+
+// --- /source/{sourceID} group ---
+
+// TestSourceLogs_TruncationLinkDownloadsTheBody walks the whole
+// feature the way a user does: render the event log page through
+// the production router, take the download URL out of the markup
+// the template emitted, and fetch that URL through the router
+// again. Nothing here is hand-written, so a typo in either the
+// route pattern or the template href fails this test — the
+// handler-level tests cannot catch that, because they forge
+// their own route context and assert a URL string they wrote
+// themselves.
+func TestSourceLogs_TruncationLinkDownloadsTheBody(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	env := newTestEnv(t)
+
+	userID, _ := env.seedUser(t, "loguser", "somepassword")
+	cookies := env.authCookies(t, userID, "loguser")
+
+	// Comfortably over the event log page's render cap, so the
+	// page truncates the body and renders the download link at
+	// all. The exact cap is the handlers package's business and
+	// is pinned by its own tests; this only needs to exceed it.
+	stored := strings.Repeat("Z", 64*1024)
+
+	wh := env.seedWebhook(t, userID)
+	env.seedEvent(t, wh.ID, stored)
+
+	page := env.get("/source/"+wh.ID+"/logs", cookies)
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, page.Code)
+
+	link := regexp.MustCompile(
+		`href="(/source/[^"]+/body)"`,
+	).FindStringSubmatch(page.Body.String())
+	require.Len(
+		t, link, 2,
+		"truncated body should render a download link",
+	)
+
+	w := env.get(html.UnescapeString(link[1]), cookies)
+
+	require.Equal(
+		t, http.StatusOK, w.Code,
+		"the link the page emits must be a live route",
+	)
+	assert.Equal(t, stored, w.Body.String())
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, strconv.Itoa(len(stored)),
+		w.Header().Get("Content-Length"),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, "application/octet-stream",
+		w.Header().Get("Content-Type"),
+	)
+	assert.Contains(
+		t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"), "attachment",
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t, "nosniff", w.Header().Get("X-Content-Type-Options"),
+	)
+}
+
+// TestSourceLogsBody_OtherUser404s pins that the download route
+// as registered is behind the auth the group provides and the
+// ownership check the handler applies: another logged-in user
+// asking the real router for the same URL gets a 404, and an
+// unauthenticated request never reaches the handler at all.
+func TestSourceLogsBody_OtherUser404s(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	env := newTestEnv(t)
+
+	ownerID, _ := env.seedUser(t, "owner", "somepassword")
+	wh := env.seedWebhook(t, ownerID)
+
+	const payload = "OWNERS-PAYLOAD-77c1"
+
+	evt := env.seedEvent(t, wh.ID, payload)
+	path := "/source/" + wh.ID + "/logs/" + evt.ID + "/body"
+
+	intruderID, _ := env.seedUser(t, "intruder", "somepassword")
+	intruder := env.authCookies(t, intruderID, "intruder")
+
+	w := env.get(path, intruder)
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
+	assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), payload)
+
+	anon := env.get(path, nil)
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusSeeOther, anon.Code)
+	assert.Equal(t, "/pages/login", anon.Header().Get("Location"))
+}
diff --git a/templates/source_logs.html b/templates/source_logs.html
index e523712..cf48983 100644
--- a/templates/source_logs.html
+++ b/templates/source_logs.html
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
                 <div x-show="open" x-cloak class="mt-3 p-3 bg-gray-50 rounded-md">
                     <pre class="text-xs text-gray-700 overflow-x-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-all">{{.Body}}</pre>
                     {{if .BodyTruncated}}
-                    <p class="mt-2 text-xs text-gray-500">Body truncated for display: showing {{.BodyShownBytes}} of {{.BodyBytes}} bytes. The stored body is unchanged.</p>
+                    <p class="mt-2 text-xs text-gray-500">Body truncated for display: showing {{.BodyShownBytes}} of {{.BodyBytes}} bytes. The stored body is unchanged &mdash; <a href="/source/{{$.Webhook.ID}}/logs/{{.ID}}/body" class="text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700 underline">download the full body</a>.</p>
                     {{end}}
                 </div>
             </div>