From 79fe3c0c91211c28059db0badce29472ce734c8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kiblyn11 <4669951+Kiblyn11@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:09:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Change banner logging to stderr (#282)

* Change banner logging to stderr

* Edit CHANGELOG and CONTRIBUTORS

* fix: add to contributors according to sort order
---
 CHANGELOG.md         | 1 +
 CONTRIBUTORS.md      | 1 +
 pkg/output/stdout.go | 6 +++---
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 761d23f..2dbc5b3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 - master
   - New
     - New CLI flag `-rate` to set maximum rate of requests per second. The adjustment is dynamic.
+    - Change banner logging to stderr instead of stdout.
 
   - Changed
     - Pre-flight errors are now displayed also after the usage text to prevent the need to scroll through backlog.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index ac9805a..2d34667 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 * [jimen0](https://github.com/jimen0)
 * [joohoi](https://github.com/joohoi)
 * [jvesiluoma](https://github.com/jvesiluoma)
+* [Kiblyn11](https://github.com/Kiblyn11)
 * [lc](https://github.com/lc)
 * [nnwakelam](https://twitter.com/nnwakelam)
 * [oh6hay](https://github.com/oh6hay)
diff --git a/pkg/output/stdout.go b/pkg/output/stdout.go
index d3cd3be..19ac8a9 100644
--- a/pkg/output/stdout.go
+++ b/pkg/output/stdout.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func NewStdoutput(conf *ffuf.Config) *Stdoutput {
 }
 
 func (s *Stdoutput) Banner() error {
-	fmt.Printf("%s\n       v%s\n%s\n\n", BANNER_HEADER, ffuf.VERSION, BANNER_SEP)
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr ,"%s\n       v%s\n%s\n\n", BANNER_HEADER, ffuf.VERSION, BANNER_SEP)
 	printOption([]byte("Method"), []byte(s.config.Method))
 	printOption([]byte("URL"), []byte(s.config.Url))
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ func (s *Stdoutput) Banner() error {
 	for _, f := range s.config.Filters {
 		printOption([]byte("Filter"), []byte(f.Repr()))
 	}
-	fmt.Printf("%s\n\n", BANNER_SEP)
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s\n\n", BANNER_SEP)
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ func (s *Stdoutput) colorize(input string, status int64) string {
 }
 
 func printOption(name []byte, value []byte) {
-	fmt.Printf(" :: %-16s : %s\n", name, value)
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " :: %-16s : %s\n", name, value)
 }
 
 func inSlice(key string, slice []string) bool {