Httpie hangs in Git Bash terminal on Windows 10 - httpclient

Question

According to the official documentation httpie tool also works on Windows 10, however when I run the command in terminal it simply hangs and nothing happens:
$ http :8000/
Is there an explanation what is going on and preferably a workaround?

Answer 1

I was able to get a hint by appending the --debug parameter:
$ http localhost:8000 --debug
HTTPie 0.9.9
Requests 2.12.4
Pygments 2.1.3
Python 3.4.4 (v3.4.4:737efcadf5a6, Dec 20 2015, 20:20:57) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]
c:\users\...\venv\scripts\python.exe
Windows 10
<Environment {
"colors": 256,
"config": {
"__meta__": {
"about": "HTTPie configuration file",
"help": "https://httpie.org/docs#config",
"httpie": "0.9.9"
},
"default_options": "[]"
},
"config_dir": "C:\\Users\\...\\AppData\\Roaming\\\\httpie",
"is_windows": true,
"stderr": "<colorama.ansitowin32.StreamWrapper object at 0x0000000003CDAB00>",
"stderr_isatty": false,
"stdin": "<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='cp1252'>",
"stdin_encoding": "cp1252",
"stdin_isatty": false,
"stdout": "<colorama.ansitowin32.StreamWrapper object at 0x0000000003CDA9B0>",
"stdout_encoding": "cp1252",
"stdout_isatty": false
}>
The crucial point is that the isatty related option is set to false.
I was able to resole it and getting http working as expected by prepending the winpty command:
$ winpty http :8000
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:56:58 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.4.4
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
{
"status": "ok"
}
Solution:
By adding this alias line
alias http='winpty http'
to the ~/.profile file, one can use the initial command http as expected with git bash.