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Stale ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL Produces Misleading Connection-Refused Error

When a stale ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL environment variable points to a dead local endpoint, Claude Code fails instantly with a generic connection-refused error, while standard diagnostics like curl and raw fetch succeed because they don't read that variable, leaving users no clear diagnostic path to the true root cause.

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