diff --git a/internal/api/v1/utils/error.go b/internal/api/v1/utils/error.go
index 574193e8..c7341e9c 100644
--- a/internal/api/v1/utils/error.go
+++ b/internal/api/v1/utils/error.go
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"net/http"
 
 	E "github.com/yusing/go-proxy/internal/error"
-	"github.com/yusing/go-proxy/internal/logging"
 	"github.com/yusing/go-proxy/internal/utils/strutils/ansi"
 )
 
@@ -31,14 +31,13 @@ func RespondError(w http.ResponseWriter, err error, code ...int) {
 	if len(code) == 0 {
 		code = []int{http.StatusBadRequest}
 	}
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
-	buf := make([]byte, 0, 100)
-	errMsg := err.Error()
-	buf, err = logging.FormatMessageToHTMLBytes(errMsg, buf)
-	if err != nil {
-		http.Error(w, ansi.StripANSI(errMsg), code[0])
+	buf, err := json.Marshal(err)
+	if err != nil { // just in case
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8")
+		http.Error(w, ansi.StripANSI(err.Error()), code[0])
 		return
 	}
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
 	w.WriteHeader(code[0])
 	_, _ = w.Write(buf)
 }
diff --git a/internal/error/base.go b/internal/error/base.go
index fea4382b..4668a118 100644
--- a/internal/error/base.go
+++ b/internal/error/base.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package err
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 )
@@ -46,3 +47,18 @@ func (err baseError) Withf(format string, args ...any) Error {
 func (err *baseError) Error() string {
 	return err.Err.Error()
 }
+
+// MarshalJSON implements the json.Marshaler interface.
+func (err *baseError) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	//nolint:errorlint
+	switch err := err.Err.(type) {
+	case Error, *withSubject:
+		return json.Marshal(err)
+	case json.Marshaler:
+		return err.MarshalJSON()
+	case interface{ MarshalText() ([]byte, error) }:
+		return err.MarshalText()
+	default:
+		return json.Marshal(err.Error())
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/error/subject.go b/internal/error/subject.go
index f080f11a..eac74995 100644
--- a/internal/error/subject.go
+++ b/internal/error/subject.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package err
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/yusing/go-proxy/internal/utils/strutils/ansi"
@@ -8,8 +9,8 @@ import (
 
 //nolint:errname
 type withSubject struct {
-	Subjects []string `json:"subjects"`
-	Err      error    `json:"err"`
+	Subjects []string
+	Err      error
 
 	pendingSubject string
 }
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ func (err *withSubject) Error() string {
 	for _, s := range err.Subjects {
 		size += len(s)
 	}
-	sb.Grow(size + 2 + n*len(subjectSep) + len(errStr))
+	sb.Grow(size + 2 + n*len(subjectSep) + len(errStr) + len(highlight("")))
 
 	for i := n - 1; i > 0; i-- {
 		sb.WriteString(err.Subjects[i])
@@ -85,3 +86,20 @@ func (err *withSubject) Error() string {
 	sb.WriteString(errStr)
 	return sb.String()
 }
+
+// MarshalJSON implements the json.Marshaler interface.
+func (err *withSubject) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	subjects := make([]string, len(err.Subjects))
+	for i, s := range err.Subjects {
+		subjects[len(err.Subjects)-i-1] = s
+	}
+	reversed := struct {
+		Subjects []string `json:"subjects"`
+		Err      error    `json:"err"`
+	}{
+		Subjects: subjects,
+		Err:      err.Err,
+	}
+
+	return json.Marshal(reversed)
+}