Local HTTP proxy run alongside Claude Code scrambles the TUI: BrokenPipe tracebacks printed to the shared terminal
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Never write to stderr from proxy threads; log to a file and silence client hang-ups:
class Server(ThreadingHTTPServer):
daemon_threads = True
def handle_error(self, request, client_address):
import sys, traceback
exc = sys.exc_info()[1]
if isinstance(exc, (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError)):
return
with open(LOG_PATH, 'a') as f:
traceback.print_exc(file=f)
class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def log_message(self, *a): pass # default logs to stderr too
def finish(self):
try: super().finish()
except OSError: pass
Alternatively start the proxy with stdout/stderr redirected to a log file (>proxy.log 2>&1 &).
Symptom
A wrapper launches a small Python ThreadingHTTPServer-based local proxy and then Claude Code in the same terminal (e.g. via HTTPS_PROXY=127.0.0.1:<port>). The Claude Code TUI periodically gets garbled with Python tracebacks (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError) mid-screen.
Cause
When a client hangs up (cancelled request, stream closed), socketserver's default handle_error prints a full traceback to stderr, which is the same TTY the TUI is drawing on.
Verify
After the change, long sessions with cancelled requests no longer corrupt the TUI.
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