how works vscode-remote+code-serverurl http request

[alexisdondon]

What is your suggestion?

I have identified some http request in the browser like this one :

https://vscode-remote+urlOfMyCodeServer.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/some/path/to/extensions/ms-toolsai.jupyter-renderers-1.0.17-universal/out/client_renderer/builtinRendererHooks.js

The use case is the jypyter extension of vscode.

How will this improve the docs?

I have two questions:

• how my browser know that this query should connect to the urlOfMyCodeServer because the urlOfMyCodeServer.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net do not exist from my knowledge.
• by the way, i am trying to add a Content-Security-Policy more restrictive for security purpose, this kind of url force connect-src to specify the domain .vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net is there a way to change this behaviour or should i live with this domain open even if i understard that the url return a javascirpt file not on internet but within codeserver

[code-asher]

Yeah I believe that URL is fake. It is intercepted by the service worker and it returns a response by reading the file through the websocket instead.

It can probably be changed to be anything, and I think it would be reasonable to change it to the current domain or something like that.

[alexisdondon]

the url is fake also i think but firefox send this http request and with a more restricted csp the query is blocked.

I don't understand how the query http is really sent/routed to the code-server maybe this is related to WebView technology but i am not sure and need to dig more to understand

[code-asher]

Ahhhh right that makes sense.

Yeah I think iframes + service worker is meant to emulate Electron's webviews, but I am not familiar with Electron or webviews very much so I am not able to infer more.

But, I can point you to where the service worker intercepts HTTP requests:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/52c722c7bbec270a00c0ba530508a82bcddb0f79/src/vs/workbench/contrib/webview/browser/pre/service-worker.js#L169

I think this can be changed to anything but I am not sure (maybe we should change it to location.host for example): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/52c722c7bbec270a00c0ba530508a82bcddb0f79/src/vs/workbench/contrib/webview/common/webview.ts#L21

The folks up at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode will definitely know more than me though.