Do we know the server name used by CoPilot? about fauxpilot

[moyix]

Yes, unfortunately modern TLS stacks tend to reject self-signed certs. If they don't have an override setting like the VSCode plugin does, then you may be out of luck, short of modifying the plugin code (which is doable I think; it's just JavaScript).

[moyix]

Do you mean for use with FauxPilot? If so, then you want to point it at http://localhost:5000, as mentioned in the README. I'm not sure what the URL for the official Copilot servers is, but you should be able to dig it out of the VSCode plugin.

[HughPH]

Do you mean for use with FauxPilot? If so, then you want to point it at http://localhost:5000, as mentioned in the README.

No, I have that, and I've configured nginx as a reverse proxy with a self-signed certificate so I can just redirect requests to the machine hosting fauxpilot. The problem is that the plugin is not configurable, so there's nowhere for me to put http://localhost:5000 (or any other location)

I'd like to find out the address without having to install VSCode and a plugin, but if that's the only way then that's what I'll do.

[HughPH]

Looking at some javascript associated with the JetBrains plugin, it looks like it's probably copilot-proxy.githubusercontent.com

[HughPH]

Unfortunately when I change the hosts file to point to where it's hosted, the plugin just fails without apparently hitting the server. It may be allergic to the self-signed certificate: the server side logs only an error: "Unexpected EOF while reading" which suggests the client side cut the connection right after discovering the certificate was invalid. To go further I would need to create my own CA cert and install it locally, and sign my nginx cert with that CA cert - and even then it might not work: I notice the same javascript references /engines/copilot-codex, /engines/${a} (so presumably it can be remotely configured per user), and /engines/copilot-experiment-e-centralus

[thakkarparth007]

Please see my comment in #10 regarding this.

Closing as stale. Please reopen if needed!