vscode: Unable switch to HTTPS for Local Port Forwarding

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

VS Code Version: 1.85.1
OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Version: 1.85.1 (user setup)
Commit: 0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2
Date: 2023-12-13T09:49:37.021Z
Electron: 25.9.7
ElectronBuildId: 25551756
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Steps to Reproduce:

Create a sample Angular project (for testing tls connection)
```
npm i -g @angular/cli

ng new demo1 --ssr=false --style=css
cd demo1
ng serve --ssl
```
At this moment, it will listen https://localhost:4200/
Open with VSCode and create a new Local Port Forwarding
```
code .
```
I tried to switch to HTTPS.

It never switch to HTTPS.

Preview in Editor

It never response.

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 6 months ago
Reactions: 7
Comments: 18 (6 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Allow tunnel factory providers to opt out of protocol support Part of #201465 — committed to microsoft/vscode by alexr00 6 months ago
Allow tunnel factory providers to opt out of protocol support (#202067) Part of #201465 — committed to microsoft/vscode by alexr00 6 months ago

Most upvoted comments

Glad to see it’s not just me struggling with this issue!

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/201371

icleolion on Jan 3, 2024

For anyone wanting to get this working while they fix the issue, you can download the devtunnel cli and follow the guide here.

For linux machines:

Download devtunnel using:

curl -sL https://aka.ms/DevTunnelCliInstall | bash

Then login and register with your microsoft account:

devtunnel user login

Finally run the command mentioned by @doggy8088 above with your desired port:

devtunnel host -p 8080 --protocol https

Solved all my problems… In the meanwhile thanks for your great work on vscode @connor4312. I hope it’ll be fixed soon! 😃

ionorb on Jan 15, 2024

@alexr00 I think dev tunnel do support HTTP to the backend. Do we saying the same product?

Check here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/dev-tunnels/cli-commands

Example:

devtunnel host -p 4200 --protocol http

See also:

devtunnel host --help

doggy8088 on Jan 12, 2024

@connor4312 ok, so is the plan now to keep the protocol switching menu (not bother with adding auto due to it’s seeming uselessness) and when a user switches protocol, instead of updating the existing dev tunnel, it will be closed/reopened instead using the new protocol?

icleolion on Jan 10, 2024

@alexr00 Please tell me I’ve misunderstood things again, because dev tunnels in vs code works just fine with http protocol as I mentioned in my original issue.

icleolion on Jan 9, 2024

Per @connor4312 in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/201465#issuecomment-1881501118, switching the protocol is not supported in Dev Tunnels. I’ve added a way for the Dev Tunnels extension to simply remove this functionality for ports forwarded by Dev Tunnels. Once @connor4312 adopts this in the Dev Tunnels extension you should be all set with https as the default, as I assume, Dev Tunnels will also just use https as the default.

alexr00 on Jan 9, 2024

I have no need to switch dev tunnels between HTTP and HTTPS. How can I add a port with HTTPS at the beginning for this new change?

doggy8088 on Jan 9, 2024