From c53a778f60186b8a594286527ed52abc783c6b3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dongweiming <ciici123@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:14:23 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Issue #496

---
 httpie/cli.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/httpie/cli.py b/httpie/cli.py
index 91d5347285..e78b59f275 100644
--- a/httpie/cli.py
+++ b/httpie/cli.py
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ def _split_lines(self, text, width):
     'items',
     metavar='REQUEST_ITEM',
     nargs=ZERO_OR_MORE,
+    default=None,
     type=KeyValueArgType(*SEP_GROUP_ALL_ITEMS),
     help=r"""
     Optional key-value pairs to be included in the request. The separator used