^{Originally posted by dkebler May 7, 2023}
I am unable to track down why this is happening but with a got post call I keep getting some unwanted response to the console when I run a particular command on a remote device. It's not part of the result of the resolved promise so I'm scratching my head?

this calls got post with a remote command. In this case UrlFetch which is specific to a tasmota device. This command will have the tasmota device pull a file from the fileurl which is where I have a simple (nodejs based) static file server running.

async function fetch(host, server, file) {
	const temp = path.parse(file);
	if (temp.ext === '.be') {
		temp.ext = '.bec';
		temp.base = null;
		await remove(host, path.format(temp));
	}

	const fileurl = `${server}/${file}`;
	const res = await cmnd(host, 'UrlFetch ' + fileurl);
	if ((res || {}).UrlFetch === 'Done') {
		console.log(res);
		return 'success';
	}

	return null;
}

post command

async function cmnd(host, cmnd) {
	const url = `http://${host}/cm`;
	return got.post(url, {
		form: {cmnd},
		timeout: {
			request: 30000,
			connect: 30000,
		},
	}).json()
		.catch(err => {
			console.log('---------ERROR----------');
			console.log(err);
		});
}

when successful the output to the console is

Stats {
  dev: 8388828,
  mode: 33188,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 1000,
  gid: 1000,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: 4096,
  ino: 242034,
  size: 0,
  blocks: 0,
  atimeMs: 1683484733037.572,
  mtimeMs: 1683484733037.572,
  ctimeMs: 1683484733037.572,
  birthtimeMs: 0,
  atime: 2023-05-07T18:38:53.038Z,
  mtime: 2023-05-07T18:38:53.038Z,
  ctime: 2023-05-07T18:38:53.038Z,
  birthtime: 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
}
true
{ UrlFetch: 'Done' }

but should only be

{ UrlFetch: 'Done' }

which is what is in res so how is it possible that this other "stuff" appears in the console. I didn't log it there. Does got post have some "verbose/debug" setting (by default) that sends other parts of the post response to the console? this appears to be info about the file that was fetched. If I send other commands like UfsDelete that extra "stuff" does not appear.

SO

if I noop the console.log function before calling cmnd (that returns got.post promise) and then restore it afterwards I can suppress that unexpected console output. That kinda indicates to me that it's an (unsuppressible) console.log statement somewhere in got.post and/or mabye .json(). So I'm assuming this is a bug and making this issue. Obviously I have a workaround so it's not critical.

	const t = console.log;
	console.log = function () {};
	const res = await cmnd(host, 'UrlFetch ' + fileurl);
	if ((res || {}).UrlFetch === 'Done') {
		console.log = t;
		console.log(res);
		return 'success';
	}