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yhirose ebcd5551fd Report each failed client request to the error logger once
A failed request could reach the client's error logger twice: once from
the step that failed, without a request when that was the TLS setup or
the proxy CONNECT, and again from send_() with the request. A content
receiver or progress callback that canceled was reported twice too, a
CONNECT answered with 407 only without a request, and a stream that
failed to open not at all unless TLS failed.

Report a failure in one place instead. The outermost send() reports the
request's error once, with the request the caller made, also when the
failure happened on a redirect (a redirect client no longer gets the
error logger) and when an answer carries an error, such as a proxy's
407. open_stream() reports a stream that fails to open the same way.
Only an upload body compressed before send() still reports where it
fails.
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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;
});
```
Each failed request is reported once, with the request you made, also when it failed on a redirect. A stream that fails to open with `open_stream()` or `stream::Get()` is reported the same way; errors while reading its body come back through `read_error()` instead. `req` is null only in a server's error logger, for errors that belong to no request.
## 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.