I was trying to read up on it and just based off of the manual it seems not to make sense if I’m not using --silent alongside it, but I found this one article stating otherwise: https://nrogap.medium.com/show-error-response-for-curl-64666cd64330

I can’t figure out if it’s just AI slop or badly researched since it doesn’t even show a real URL to test the commands against.

Manual entry: 

       -S, --show-error
              When used with  -s,  --silent,  it
              makes  curl  show an error message
              if it fails.

              This option is global and does not
              need  to be specified for each use
              of -:, --next.

              Providing -S, --show-error  multi‐
              ple  times  has  no  extra effect.
              Disable it again  with  --no-show-
              error.

              Example:
               curl --show-error --silent https://
example.com

              See also --no-progress-meter.
  • QuazarOmegaOPA
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I think so too, but I wanted a confirmation. I tried that website as well, but with it I could only get error messages if I also provide --fail to error on HTTP error codes