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[Feat]: please add support to expose grpc:// uris (http2)
What is your suggestion?
please add support to expose grpc:// uris (http2) -via proxy or any other way
Why do you want this feature?
to enable development with grpc-web
Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?
No (?)
Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?
I wouldn't know where to start
Is the idea to make gRPC calls through the proxy to forwarded ports possible? So if you have a gRPC backend on localhost:8081 and you want to make requests to it through domain.tld/proxy/8081/ for example?
If so, I think https://github.com/coder/code-server/issues/5723 is related. Currently HTTP is the only supported protocol but it would be nice to support others (in the linked issue we talk about forwarding MongoDB and others).
I think maybe what we need is a way to proxy arbitrary data without needing to be protocol-aware.
Absolutely agree! Raw TCP and UDP servers would be nice.
GRPC is just http2 but with the grpc:// part at the beginning of the url, so it might be a very small change if code-server supports http2
Ah interesting. I see the issue you opened in proxy-agents, hopefully they can tell us more about whether http2 is supported but at a glance it looks like it might not be. Maybe we need to use a different package or add support upstream.
I imagine the best workaround today would probably be to use something else to do the proxying.
Thanks for your response.
I imagine the best workaround today would probably be to use something else to do the proxying.
Would that be a setting, or a code change?
Neither, I was thinking of using an external reverse proxy like NGINX. So there would be one entry for code-server itself and then another for proxying arbitrary ports.
If an external proxy is used then code-server's could be disabled
with --disable-proxy and the VSCODE_PROXY_URI environment
variable could be used to make the right domain show up in the
ports panel if needed.