diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/api.rb b/Library/Homebrew/api.rb
index 2537e75c71..2af1e7d7af 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/api.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/api.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ module Homebrew
       begin
         begin
           # Disable retries here, we handle them ourselves below.
-          Utils::Curl.curl_download(*curl_args, to: target, max_time: JSON_API_MAX_TIME, retries: 0)
+          Utils::Curl.curl_download(*curl_args, url, to: target,
+                                    max_time: JSON_API_MAX_TIME, retries: 0,
+                                    show_error: false)
         rescue ErrorDuringExecution
           if url == default_url
             raise unless target.exist?
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils/curl.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils/curl.rb
index 56ea25f353..472b53db94 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils/curl.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils/curl.rb
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ module Utils
         retries:         T.nilable(Integer),
         retry_max_time:  T.any(Integer, Float, NilClass),
         show_output:     T.nilable(T::Boolean),
+        show_error:      T.nilable(T::Boolean),
         user_agent:      T.any(String, Symbol, NilClass),
       ).returns(T::Array[T.untyped])
     }
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ module Utils
       retries: Homebrew::EnvConfig.curl_retries.to_i,
       retry_max_time: nil,
       show_output: false,
+      show_error: true,
       user_agent: nil
     )
       args = []
@@ -76,7 +78,7 @@ module Utils
 
       args << "--globoff"
 
-      args << "--show-error"
+      args << "--show-error" if show_error
 
       args << "--user-agent" << case user_agent
       when :browser, :fake