# Request for \`--no-browser\` option for \`pomerium-cli\`

**URL:** <https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/request-for-no-browser-option-for-pomerium-cli/416>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 6, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/request-for-no-browser-option-for-pomerium-cli/416 "2024-10-06T05:09:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rajivr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discuss.pomerium.com/rajivr/32/154_2.png) [@rajivr](https://discuss.pomerium.com/u/rajivr)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/request-for-no-browser-option-for-pomerium-cli/416/1 "2024-10-06T05:09:02Z")

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## What happened?

I am new to Pomerium. Firstly, _thank you_ for making Pomerium and making Pomerium Core freely available.

Currently when using `pomerium-cli`, it automatically launches a browser when a connection needs to be setup.

For example, when run this command, and connect to Redis, Firefox browser is automatically launched.

```auto
$ ./pomerium-cli tcp redis.localhost.pomerium.io:6379 --listen localhost:6379 --alternate-ca-path ./root_ca.crt --browser-cmd "firefox"
{"level":"debug","time":"2024-10-04T15:06:48+05:30","message":"pkg/cryptutil: added custom certificate authority"}
2024/10/04 15:06:48 listening on 127.0.0.1:6379
Your browser has been opened to visit:

https://authenticate.pomerium.app/.pomerium/sign_in?...

2024/10/04 15:09:20 connection established
2024/10/04 15:09:20 connection closed

```

## What did you expect to happen?

AWS CLI has an option [`--no-browser`](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/2.9.6/reference/sso/login.html#options) that disables automatically opening the verification URL using the default browser.

This option is very helpful when we want to manually copy and paste the URL into our current browser instance.

Would it be possible to introduce a similar option for `pomerium-cli`? Thank you!

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**Author:** ![CMo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@CMo](https://discuss.pomerium.com/u/CMo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/request-for-no-browser-option-for-pomerium-cli/416/2 "2024-10-07T15:41:45Z")

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Hi, thank you for the kind words and the feature request!

Could you please direct this to [GitHub - pomerium/cli: Pomerium CLI](https://github.com/pomerium/cli), open an issue in the form of a feature request?

Cheers and we love hearing about how people are using Pomerium!