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* docs: improve clarity of sentences

Improved clarity by rephrasing sentences in the best practices section.

* docs: improve best practices section

* use appropriate formatting for stdin
* include EOF in abbreviated form

* docs: clarify sentence

* change 'know that' -> 'note that'
* use neither nor for better clarity
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hugo-sid committed Mar 22, 2023
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The default behavior of automatically reading `stdin` is typically not desirable during non-interactive invocations.
You most likely want to use the `--ignore-stdin` option to disable it.
It is a common *gotcha* that without this option HTTPie seemingly hangs.
What happens is that when HTTPie is invoked, for example, from a cron job, `stdin` is not connected to a terminal.
Therefore, the rules for [redirected input](#redirected-input) apply, i.e. HTTPie starts to read it expecting that the request body will be passed through.
And since there’s neither data nor `EOF`, it will get stuck. So unless you’re piping some data to HTTPie, the `--ignore-stdin` flag should be used in scripts.
It's important to note that without the `--ignore-stdin` option, HTTPie may appear to have stopped working (hang). This happens because, in situations where HTTPie is invoked outside of an interactive session, such as from a cron job, `stdin` is not connected to a terminal. This means that the rules for [redirected input](#redirected-input) will be followed. When `stdin` is redirected, HTTPie assumes that the input will contain the request body, and it waits for the input to be provided. But, since there is neither any input data nor an end-of-file (`EOF`) signal, HTTPie gets stuck. To avoid this problem, the `--ignore-stdin` flag should be used in scripts, unless data is being piped to HTTPie.
Also, it might be good to set a connection `--timeout` limit to prevent your program from hanging if the server never responds.
To prevent your program from becoming unresponsive when the server fails to respond, it's a good idea to use the `--timeout` option to set a connection timeout limit.
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