Piped URL to httpie with xargs creates a POST request unexpectedly #1017
Description
Hello!
Thank you for this utility! Has made requesting/testing URLs in development very handy for me.
I came across a bug that was resolved by using the instructions in #150 and #660 , but I am seeing unexpected behavior in the request itself that I couldn't find in reported in another issue.
When parsing a URL from a pipe, I expected httpie to create a GET request to the specified URL:
http https://api.weather.gov/points/41.9752,-87.9035 | jq '.properties.forecast | tostring' | sed 's/"//g' | xargs http
Translates to: http https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/LOT/65,76/forecast
When I run the piped request, the URL returns 403 Forbidden, indicating an unauthorized request. Running the request with debug indicates I've sent a POST method to the URL (Refer to requests.request section)
❯ http https://api.weather.gov/points/41.9752,-87.9035 | jq '.properties.forecast | tostring' | sed 's/"//g' | xargs http --debug
HTTPie 2.2.0
Requests 2.24.0
Pygments 2.6.1
Python 3.9.0 (default, Dec 6 2020, 18:02:34)
[Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.27)]
/usr/local/Cellar/httpie/2.2.0_1/libexec/bin/python
Darwin 19.6.0
<Environment {'colors': 256,
'config': {'default_options': []},
'config_dir': PosixPath('/Users/cwebdog/.config/httpie'),
'is_windows': False,
'log_error': <function Environment.log_error at 0x103ad0700>,
'program_name': 'http',
'stderr': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stderr>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>,
'stderr_isatty': True,
'stdin': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>,
'stdin_encoding': 'utf-8',
'stdin_isatty': False,
'stdout': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>,
'stdout_encoding': 'utf-8',
'stdout_isatty': True}>
>>> requests.request(**{'auth': None,
'data': b'',
'files': RequestFilesDict(),
'headers': {'User-Agent': b'HTTPie/2.2.0'},
'method': 'post',
'params': RequestQueryParamsDict(),
'url': 'https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/LOT/65,76/forecast'})
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 309
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:42:18 GMT
Expires: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:42:18 GMT
Mime-Version: 1.0
Server: AkamaiGHost
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
Vary: Accept,Feature-Flags,Accept-Language
X-Edge-Request-ID: 3d0c2d7
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Access Denied</H1>
You don't have permission to access "http://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/LOT/65,76/forecast" on this server.<P>
Reference #18.6fe13217.1610469738.3d0c2d7
</BODY>
</HTML>By appending --ignore-stdin to the request URL, or by declaring GET as the method in the first argument following http maintains the request as a GET:
❯ http https://api.weather.gov/points/41.9752,-87.9035 | jq '.properties.forecast | tostring' | sed 's/"//g' | xargs http --ignore-stdin --debug
HTTPie 2.2.0
Requests 2.24.0
Pygments 2.6.1
Python 3.9.0 (default, Dec 6 2020, 18:02:34)
[Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.27)]
/usr/local/Cellar/httpie/2.2.0_1/libexec/bin/python
Darwin 19.6.0
<Environment {'colors': 256,
'config': {'default_options': []},
'config_dir': PosixPath('/Users/cwebdog/.config/httpie'),
'is_windows': False,
'log_error': <function Environment.log_error at 0x1025a2700>,
'program_name': 'http',
'stderr': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stderr>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>,
'stderr_isatty': True,
'stdin': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>,
'stdin_encoding': 'utf-8',
'stdin_isatty': False,
'stdout': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>,
'stdout_encoding': 'utf-8',
'stdout_isatty': True}>
>>> requests.request(**{'auth': None,
'data': RequestJSONDataDict(),
'files': RequestFilesDict(),
'headers': {'User-Agent': b'HTTPie/2.2.0'},
'method': 'get',
'params': RequestQueryParamsDict(),
'url': 'https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/LOT/65,76/forecast'})
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Feature-Flags
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: public, max-age=842, s-maxage=3600
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 1514
Content-Type: application/geo+json
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:56:32 GMT
Expires: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:10:34 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:21:50 GMT
Server: nginx/1.16.1
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Vary: Accept,Feature-Flags,Accept-Language
X-Correlation-ID: 8942acf
X-Edge-Request-ID: 84a76f69
X-Request-ID: c9da5813-06a6-4b4d-ab6a-1789ae353037
X-Server-ID: vm-lnx-nids-apiapp3.ncep.noaa.gov