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- Fix the client sample that does not compile, the Transfer-Encoding
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- Fix cookbook pages: keychain loading on every backend, received Close
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  echo sample that sent binary as text, SNI, pre-request handler scope,
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- Restore the mutex in the LLM app's Chapter 5 code.
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---
title: "C19. Set a Logger on the Client"
order: 19
status: "draft"
---
To log requests sent and responses received by the client, use `set_logger()`. If you only care about errors, there's a separate `set_error_logger()`.
## Log requests and responses
```cpp
httplib::Client cli("https://api.example.com");
cli.set_logger([](const httplib::Request &req, const httplib::Response &res) {
std::cout << req.method << " " << req.path
<< " -> " << res.status << std::endl;
});
auto res = cli.Get("/users");
```
The callback you pass to `set_logger()` fires once for each completed request. You get both the request and the response as arguments — so you can log the method, path, status, headers, body, or whatever else you need.
## Catch errors only
When a network-layer error happens (like `Error::Connection`), `set_logger()` is **not** called — there's no response to log. For those cases, use `set_error_logger()`.
```cpp
cli.set_error_logger([](const httplib::Error &err, const httplib::Request *req) {
std::cerr << "error: " << httplib::to_string(err);
if (req) {
std::cerr << " (" << req->method << " " << req->path << ")";
}
std::cerr << std::endl;
});
```
The second argument `req` can be null — it happens when the error comes from setting up the connection, such as the TLS handshake, loading CA certificates, or opening a tunnel through a proxy. Always null-check before dereferencing.
## Use both together
A nice pattern is to log successes through one, failures through the other.
```cpp
cli.set_logger([](const auto &req, const auto &res) {
std::cout << "[ok] " << req.method << " " << req.path
<< " " << res.status << std::endl;
});
cli.set_error_logger([](const auto &err, const auto *req) {
std::cerr << "[ng] " << httplib::to_string(err);
if (req) std::cerr << " " << req->method << " " << req->path;
std::cerr << std::endl;
});
```
> **Note:** The log callbacks run synchronously on the same thread as the request. Heavy work inside them slows the request down — push it to a background queue if you need to do anything expensive.