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URL translation via VSCODE_PROXY_URI drops query parameters

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
backend, devtools

Research direction

Start by reading patches/proxy-uri.diff at lines 59-62, then reproduce the translation with the provided VSCODE_PROXY_URI and a URL containing ?token=.... Trace how the proxied URL is assembled and verify that the query parameters remain present in the translated URL. Done means URLs such as the JupyterLab example work without manually supplying the token.

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Description

bug
Is there an existing issue for this?
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OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Chrome
  • Local OS: MacOS
  • Remote OS: Ubuntu
  • Remote Architecture: amd64
  • code-server --version: 1.102.2
Steps to Reproduce
  1. Run code-server with a configured VSCODE_PROXY_URI
  2. Attempt to redirect from a local URL to the proxy, where the URL contains a query parameter.
    (Example: http://127.0.0.1:8888/lab?token=2212f0697bfed279e9a6fa898291a0f44f313b3510965815)
  3. Observe that code-server will correctly translate the base url to 8888-{my-proxy}/lab, but that the query param token=... is not passed along. Navigating to the correct URL directly (8888-{my-proxy}/lab?token=...) works correctly.

The example I'm using here is based on attempting to launch jupyterlab via a terminal in code-server,
but this bug is not specific to jupyterlab, the problem presents itself for any URL that contains a query parameter part.

Expected

The query parameters are copied over to the proxied URL, and translation works seamlessly.

Actual

The query parameters are dropped from the proxied URL, and need to be manually supplied in order to provide the correct data to the server.

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Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

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

I suspect that this part of the proxy_uri patch does not function correctly, but I know too little of the workings of vscode to be sure.

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