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No terminal backend

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
backend

Research direction

No source files, tests, or logs are identified. Start by reproducing the reverse-proxy setup with the stated Windows client and Debian remote, then inspect the terminal-backend error and collect relevant logs; done means a terminal opens successfully through the remote authority.

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Description

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Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 129.0
  • Local OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
  • Remote OS: Linux Debian 13 (trixie)
  • Remote Architecture: amd64
  • code-server --version: 1.91.1
Steps to Reproduce

Using Reverse Proxy

Expected

OK

Actual

Error: No terminal backend registered for remote authority ':'

Logs

No response

Screenshot/Video

No response

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

No, this works as expected in GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

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