Httpgd plot viewer not working with LiveShare

[renkun-ken]

Currently, httpgd plot viewer does not seems to work with LiveShare. Not sure if it is possible to support this.

[nx10]

I would be happy to implement what is needed server-side to support this.

[renkun-ken]

@ElianHugh do you think if there is a handy way to forward a httpgd plot to the client session?

[ElianHugh]

Hmm, this was definitely working before. It may be there was a regression at some point. I'll have a look to see where the issue is

[renkun-ken]

httpgd::hgd_browse() that creates a WebView works with LiveShare.

I tried rolling back to previous versions but the built-in httpgd plot viewer never worked.

[renkun-ken]

However, if I start debugging and join a LiveShare session, then the httpgd plot viewer works.

[renkun-ken]

Looks like all features that depend on a http server on localhost do not work as we don't have a mechanism of port forwarding from host to guest, then visiting the URL by httpgd plot viewer and all browser requests simply get nothing.

[renkun-ken]

When I manually use "Share Server" to share the localhost url, then the viewer works as supposed.

[renkun-ken]

Just notice that I didn't enable "Auto forward ports. Now just httpgd does not work as we don't share port before notifying guest the httpgd request.

[ElianHugh]

Thanks for digging into that. I suspect we didn't run into this issue because of it working during debugging. As an aside, "auto forward ports" was (from memory) untoggled due to security concerns