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Local HTTP proxy run alongside Claude Code scrambles the TUI: BrokenPipe tracebacks printed to the shared terminal

BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Fix

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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