Http-server: --port is broken

[johnstonmatt]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

If the issue is a bug report, please provide the steps to reproduce it. Please include the actual command causing the issue if applicable.

http-server --port 3001

What did you expect to happen?

Server should treat http-server --port 3001 exactly like http-server -p 3000

I actually made the PR that did this. It happened here: https://github.com/http-party/http-server/pull/468

What actually happened? Please include the actual error trace and / or stack trace if applicable.

http-server uses the default port: 3000

If the issue is a feature request, what is the motivation / use case for it?

Tell us about your environment
macOS

• http-server version:
  0.11.1
• Platform:
  macOS
  Other information (related issues, suggestions for a fix, etc):

[johnstonmatt]

@BigBlueHat could you please let me know how I might fix this issue? I think the new argv parser is broken

[x4th]

I haven't been able to replicate this on Ubuntu 18.04.3.

[johnstonmatt]

@x4th I have fixed an error in the issue description, are you using -p or --port ? I am able to configure the port using -p but not with --port

[x4th]

Using --port.

[johnstonmatt]

@x4th thanks for your help! May I ask which version of http-server are you using?

[x4th]

I just cloned it from here, master branch, version 0.11.1.

[johnstonmatt]

@x4th by cloning this repo, I also have no issue. However after installing it via npm at version 0.11.1 the issue is present

[morenoh149]

first thing I found on osx. I can reproduce. -p works find though

[Leedehai]

From @johnstonmatt's comment, a new release on NPM is needed? The latest one on NPM was 2 years ago.