Client throws exception "Cannot cache data larger than 20971520 bytes" when receiving uncompressed document from server

Steps to reproduce:
1) generate a 30MB document. compress the document, in my case the compressed size is ~15MB.
2) using a 3.0 client, send this compressed doc with datatype 0x02 to the server. server stores this as is.
3) using a 2.x client, request a GET for this document. The server uncompresses the doc since the request if from 2.x client that is not flex metadata aware and sends the raw doc to client.
4) client throws following exception and connection resets..java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot cache data larger than 20971520 bytes (you tried to cache a 31211520 byte object)
5) we should release appropriate hot patch or workaround information on how to handle this scenario from 2.x clients.