Verbose flag changes what is sent to stdout
Hello,
For the context, as part of my work I need to check the headers I send in addition of what I receive as response, so because of that I use the verbose -v flag. I also often pass the output through the jq command, but those are not really compatible because the verbose flag changes the stdout value. Here are some tests I did, removing some headers to make it shorter (forgive the fish shell syntax for piping)
# regulat call sends just the body to STDOUT but everything to STDERR
~> xh https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 1>| cat
{
"userId": 1,
"id": 1,
"title": "delectus aut autem",
"completed": false
}
~> xh https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 2>| cat
HTTP/2.0 200 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:54:32 GMT
(...)
{
"userId": 1,
"id": 1,
"title": "delectus aut autem",
"completed": false
}
# With the verbose flag, everything is sent to STDOUT as well as STDERR
~> xh -v https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 1>| cat
GET /todos/1 HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
User-Agent: xh/0.25.0
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
Host: jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
HTTP/2.0 200 OK
date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:55:31 GMT
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
(...)
{
"userId": 1,
"id": 1,
"title": "delectus aut autem",
"completed": false
}
~> xh -v https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 2>| cat
GET /todos/1 HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
Connection: keep-alive
Host: jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
User-Agent: xh/0.25.0
HTTP/2.0 200 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:00:17 GMT
(...)
{
"userId": 1,
"id": 1,
"title": "delectus aut autem",
"completed": false
}This is kinda related to #436 as with that option I could also redirect the request and response headers to STDERR, but I still think it should be seen as a separate issue, as even with the possibility to redirect some parts to STDERR, the default verbose output should probably behave the same as the default output
Source: ducaale/xh