Disabled protocol handlers and registry updates on Windows in portable mode.
Added API proposal to detect if VS Code is running in portable mode from extensions.
Skipped protocol redirect in GitHub authentication in portable mode.
For #269213
This adds a new eslint rule for `as any` and `<any>({... })`. We'd like to remove almost all of these, however right now the first goal is to prevent them in new code. That's why with this first PR I simply add `eslint-disable` comments for all breaks
Trying to get this change in soon after branching off for release to hopefully minimize disruption during debt week work
A user reported that their proxy ZScaller has issues with Electron's fetch. More research needs to be done to understand why this is not playing nice wholistically...
... but, to unblock GitHub scenarios like Copilot, we add this setting to change the implementation of fetch used.
At some point, we need to have http.useElectronFetch setting be enabled by default and when that happens, this setting can be removed in favor of that.
cc @chrmarti @alexdima
* Attempt to use Electron fetch for github-authentication
Also changes fallback from node-fetch to the built-in Node fetch
* Remove Content-Length header Electron compatibility
It looks like it was set incorrectly to the body contents anyways.
