Allow direct access to files under a path

[smhsketch]

I am trying to open an HTML file on my PC. code-server is being hosted on a spare PC. I can open and view the file just file in the cloud IDE, but I'm trying to view the HTML file as it would be shown on a website. I've tried navigating to "MYIPADDRESS:8080/home/MYUSERNAME/Projects/alarm-clock/index.html", but that doesn't work. It's probably a very obvious answer, but I haven't been able to find anything about it here.

[sr229]

There's some extensions that facilitate proxying so try those.

[nhooyr]

You'd need to setup a HTTP web server. I suppose we could handle this under another endpoint.

Thoughts @code-asher

[nhooyr]

I'll take care of this.

[nhooyr]

We should add an easy way to open files by right clicking as well.

[smhsketch]

thanks!

[code-asher]

I recently had to make changes to the /static endpoint which made it possible to get any file on the system as long as you're authenticated. For example you can use http://<domain>/static/-/home/coder/project/index.html. Just need to add the context menu option.

[nhooyr]

context menu option.

wdym by this?

Can this issue not be closed?

[code-asher]

Ah I was referring to your comment:

We should add an easy way to open files by right clicking as well.

Currently we don't have that right-click context menu option.

[code-asher]

We could wrap that into #1386 though.

[nhooyr]

Moved it into #2179