HTTPie in Cygwin

Hi,

i’ve installed httpie on windows through pip. I want to use it through cygwin but it only works through powershell or cmd. I always get the error

Philipp@lupimi ~ $ http POST http://localhost:50231/api/Contact name=scott age:=100
usage: http-script.py [--json] [--form] [--pretty {all,colors,format,none}]
                      [--style STYLE] [--print WHAT] [--headers] [--body]
                      [--verbose] [--all] [--print-others WHAT] [--stream]
                      [--output FILE] [--download] [--continue]
                      [--session SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH | --session-read-only SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH]
                      [--auth USER[:PASS]] [--auth-type {basic,digest}]
                      [--proxy PROTOCOL:PROXY_URL] [--follow]
                      [--max-redirects MAX_REDIRECTS] [--timeout SECONDS]
                      [--check-status] [--verify VERIFY]
                      [--ssl {ssl2.3,ssl3,tls1,tls1.1,tls1.2}] [--cert CERT]
                      [--cert-key CERT_KEY] [--ignore-stdin] [--help]
                      [--version] [--traceback] [--debug]
                      [METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEM [REQUEST_ITEM ...]]
http-script.py: error: Request body (from stdin or a file) and request data (key=value) cannot be mixed.

is there anything i can provide?

regards

[jakubroztocil]

@celevra It looks like stdin under Cygwin doesn’t present itself like a TTY so HTTPie thinks it’s redirected from another program or a file. So it’s probably a bug in Cygwin. What output does this command give you?

$ python -c 'import sys; print(sys.stdin.isatty())'

As a workaround, you could use the --ignore-stdin flag. And for convenience, it can be added it to your ~/.httpie/config.json under "default_options": ["--ignore-stdin"]. Then to enable the reading of stdin when you need it for particular invocations, it is possible to disable the flag again via --no-ignore-stdin.

[Arnie97]

Python for windows is a windows console application, so it won’t work well in msys/cygwin’s ansi terminal.

You may use python for cygwin rather than python for windows,

$ apt-cyg install python
$ python -c 'import sys; print(sys.stdin.isatty())' # => True

Or, you may run python for windows with winpty:

$ python.exe -c 'import sys; print(sys.stdin.isatty())' # => False
$ winpty python.exe -c 'import sys; print(sys.stdin.isatty())' # => True