feat: add port forwarding to wsl

[sandros94]

Recently I started coding more inside WSL than in Windows, but one issue made me reconsider this: the inability to expose WSL services to other networks with ease.

The main discussion about WSL not being able to expose services with ease to other networks can be fount in this WSL Issue. Thus we could say that this VSCode feature requests aim to be more like a workaround to that issue (that clearly is much more complex and not-soon to be resolved).

Would it be possible to import the Port tab and the automatic and/or manual Port Forwarding that are available with Remote-SSH and Remote-Tunnel? To my point of view this shouldn't be much complex, since the Port Forwarding feature is already available.

If needed I could write couple of use cases where this could be useful.

[vscodenpa]

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[sandros94]

@alexr00 sorry for tagging you, I hate to disturb people, but could you explain a bit your comment on VSCode#186205?

This is by design. We do not support port forwarding with a WSL connection.

What would be the difference between creating an SSH tunnel to a WSL (that to my understanding lets you open up ports) vs making by design that normal WSL tunnels don't let you open them up? Are we talking about security concerns that made this decision?

[alexr00]

Because ports used in WSL are already available on your local machine we don't bother doing any forwarding. We have simply never added any support for it. That's all.

[sandros94]

If it receives 10 upvotes we will move it to our backlog.

Thanks everyone! Looks like we got more than 10 upvotes in less than 10 hours. Let's hope the team is able to discuss this feature request, and eventually implement it.

[vscodenpa]

🙂 This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!