Response viewer

The response panel shows the result of the last request you sent from a request tab. It has a status line, a row of tabs, and a body viewer that adapts to the content type.

Status line

The top of the response panel shows:

• The status code and status text. The color shows the status class: green for 2xx, orange for 3xx, and red for 4xx and 5xx.
• The response time in milliseconds.
• The response size. In the VS Code extension, hover over the size to see the sizes of the response headers and body and of the request headers and body.

While a request is in flight, the status line reads Sending request.... When the response body is downloading, it shows the bytes received so far, and a progress bar appears in the panel.

The status line also has these buttons:

Button	Action
Save as Example	Saves the response as an example of the request. Shown only for requests saved in a collection. See Response examples.
Layout toggle	Places the response panel below or beside the request editor. The default shortcut is Alt+L.

The Decrease font size and Increase font size buttons at the right of the tab row change the text size in the response panel. Click the number between them, or double-click Decrease font size, to reset the size.

Response tabs

The response panel has these tabs. Some appear only when they have content.

Tab	Contents	Shown
Body	The response body. See Body viewer.	Always
Headers	The request URL, remote address, and HTTP version, then the request headers and response headers. The badge counts request and response headers.	When the server responded
Cookies	Sent Cookies from the request and Response Cookies from Set-Cookie headers, with their attributes. The badge counts sent and received cookies.	When the server responded
Redirects	Each redirect hop with its URL, status, and duration	When the request followed redirects
Timing	Per-phase timing and the timeout and redirect settings used. See Timing breakdown.	Always
Timeline	A step-by-step log of the request, including the step where it failed	Always
Tests	Assertion and test results, labeled with the number passed, for example Tests 3/4	After tests run
Scripts	Output from pre-request and post-response scripts	After a script runs

When a request fails before the server responds, for example on a DNS or connection error, the panel hides the Headers, Cookies, and Redirects tabs.

Body viewer

The body viewer picks a display from the response’s Content-Type header. A body that parses as JSON is treated as JSON whatever its content type. A badge at the end of the body toolbar shows the detected language, such as JSON or TEXT.

Content type	Display
JSON: application/json, +json, or any body that parses as JSON	Highlighted text with folding, or a tree
XML: text/xml, application/xml, +xml	Highlighted text, or a tree
HTML: text/html	Rendered preview, or highlighted source
CSS, JavaScript, YAML, Markdown	Highlighted text
Images: image/*	The image, with zoom controls
PDF: application/pdf	A file card with Open Externally and Save As buttons
Audio, video, application/octet-stream, application/zip, application/gzip	A file card with the content type, the size, and a Save As button
Other types	Plain text

Text and tree view

JSON and XML responses have Text view and Tree view buttons in the body toolbar. The tree view shows the body as a collapsible tree, with a button that expands or collapses every node. For a JSON tree with table view, search, filters, and more, click Open in JSON Explorer. See JSON Explorer.

Pretty and raw JSON

In the text view of a JSON response, Pretty indents the JSON and Raw shows it compact on one line.

When the response panel is narrow, the toolbar moves Pretty, Raw, folding, search, Go to Line, the JSONPath filter, and Compare into a More actions menu.

Folding

Click the arrow in the gutter next to an object or array to fold it. A folded block shows how many keys or items it hides.

In the Pretty view of a JSON response, the folding button in the toolbar expands or collapses everything. The arrow next to it opens a menu that folds the body to Level 1 through Level 5.

Search and go to line

Click Search or press Ctrl+F to search the body text. Click Go to Line to jump to a line number.

JSONPath filter

In the text view of a JSON response, click JSONPath filter to filter the body with a JSONPath expression. The body shows only the selected values, and a badge shows the number of matches. If the expression is invalid, the filter bar shows the error.

$[?(@.status == "active")]
$..email
$.data[0:5]

Below the body, a path bar shows the JSONPath of the value at the cursor, with a button to copy it.

JSON statistics

Click JSON statistics to show a summary of the JSON body: the number of keys, objects, and arrays, the maximum depth, and the number of strings, numbers, booleans, and nulls. The JSON Explorer has a more detailed statistics panel.

HTML preview

HTML responses open in Preview, which renders the page in a sandboxed frame. The frame allows scripts, so JavaScript in the page runs. Click View Source to see the HTML as highlighted text.

Image preview

Images have zoom controls above them. Fit scales the image to the panel, 100% shows its actual size, and - and + zoom out and in by 25%, from 25% to 500%. A checkered background shows transparent areas.

Links in JSON

URLs inside JSON string values are underlined. Hover over a URL to show a menu with Open in browser, Copy to clipboard, and Create new request.

Minimap

The text view can show a minimap on its right edge. Click the minimap to scroll to that part of the body. The Minimap setting controls when it appears:

Option	Behavior
Auto (show for large documents)	Shows the minimap for bodies longer than 50 lines. This is the default.
Always	Shows the minimap for every body
Never	Hides the minimap

Find the setting in Settings > General in the VS Code extension, and in Settings > Interface in the desktop app. Bodies larger than 512 KB or longer than 5,000 lines never show a minimap.

The JSON Explorer has a separate minimap that maps the tree instead of the text.

Body toolbar actions

The body toolbar also has these actions:

Action	Effect
Open in JSON Explorer	Opens the JSON body in the JSON Explorer. JSON responses only.
JSON Schema actions	Copy as JSON Schema copies a schema inferred from the body. In the VS Code extension, Add as component schema adds the schema under components/schemas in an open OpenAPI document. JSON responses only.
Compare with previous response	Shows a side-by-side diff with the previous response. JSON responses only. See Response diff.
Toggle word wrap	Wraps long lines in the text view
Copy to clipboard	Copies the body in the current Pretty or Raw format. A JSONPath filter doesn’t change what is copied.
Save response to file	Saves the body to a file. The default file name has the form METHOD-path-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM.ext, for example GET-users-2026-10-05-14-30.json.

To copy the request as a cURL command, right-click the saved request in the sidebar and select Copy as cURL.

Errors

When a request fails before the server responds, the body shows the error message as text.

In the VS Code extension, an error panel above the message names the kind of failure, shows the host that failed when it is known, and suggests a fix. The status line shows the same message with an icon. Click Retry to send the request again, or the copy button to copy the error details.

Kind	Message
TIMEOUT	Request timed out
DNS	Could not resolve hostname
SSL	SSL/TLS certificate error
CONNECTION	Connection refused or Connection was reset
NETWORK	Network unreachable or Network error
UNKNOWN	The original error message

The desktop app shows the error message in the body without the error panel.