Usage help says REQUEST_ITEM is required

[ianpartridge]

$ http
usage: http [--json] [--form] [--pretty {all,colors,format,none}]
            [--style STYLE] [--print WHAT] [--headers] [--body] [--verbose]
            [--all] [--history-print 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: error: the following arguments are required: URL, REQUEST_ITEM

From the line above, REQUEST_ITEM is optional, not required.

[jkbrzt]

Interesting, I don't get that message:

$ http
usage: http [--json] [--form] [--pretty {all,colors,format,none}]
            [--style STYLE] [--print WHAT] [--headers] [--body] [--verbose]
            [--all] [--history-print 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,ntlm,oauth1}]
            [--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] [--default-scheme DEFAULT_SCHEME] [--debug]
            [METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEM [REQUEST_ITEM ...]]
http: error: too few arguments

What output does you $ http --debug give you?

[ianpartridge]

$ http --debug
HTTPie 0.9.4
Requests 2.10.0
Pygments 2.1.3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jul 28 2016, 21:28:00)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)]
/usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3.5
Darwin 15.6.0

<Environment {
    "colors": 256,
    "config": {
        "__meta__": {
            "about": "HTTPie configuration file",
            "help": "https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie#config",
            "httpie": "0.9.4"
        },
        "default_options": "[]"
    },
    "config_dir": "/Users/ipartrid/.httpie",
    "is_windows": false,
    "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": true,
    "stdout": "<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>",
    "stdout_encoding": "UTF-8",
    "stdout_isatty": true
}>