feat(cli): add disable-file-downloads to cli

Author: jsjoeio

src/node/cli.ts

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ export interface UserProvidedCodeArgs {
   category?: string
   "github-auth"?: string
   "disable-update-check"?: boolean
+  "disable-file-downloads"?: boolean
 }
 
 /**
@@ -157,6 +158,10 @@ export const options: Options<Required<UserProvidedArgs>> = {
       "Disable update check. Without this flag, code-server checks every 6 hours against the latest github release and \n" +
       "then notifies you once every week that a new release is available.",
   },
+  "disable-file-downloads": {
+    type: "boolean",
+    description: "Disable file downloads from Code. Defaults to true.",
+  },
   // --enable can be used to enable experimental features. These features
   // provide no guarantees.
   enable: { type: "string[]" },
@@ -445,6 +450,7 @@ export interface DefaultedArgs extends ConfigArgs {
   usingEnvHashedPassword: boolean
   "extensions-dir": string
   "user-data-dir": string
+  "disable-file-downloads": boolean
   /* Positional arguments. */
   _: string[]
 }
@@ -556,6 +562,10 @@ export async function setDefaults(cliArgs: UserProvidedArgs, configArgs?: Config
   const proxyDomains = new Set((args["proxy-domain"] || []).map((d) => d.replace(/^\*\./, "")))
   args["proxy-domain"] = Array.from(proxyDomains)
 
+  if (!args["disable-file-downloads"]) {
+    args["disable-file-downloads"] = false
+  }
+
   if (typeof args._ === "undefined") {
     args._ = []
   }

test/unit/node/cli.test.ts

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ const defaults = {
   host: "localhost",
   port: 8080,
   "proxy-domain": [],
+  "disable-file-downloads": false,
   usingEnvPassword: false,
   usingEnvHashedPassword: false,
   "extensions-dir": path.join(paths.data, "extensions"),
@@ -92,6 +93,8 @@ describe("parser", () => {
 
           "--port=8081",
 
+          "--disable-file-downloads",
+
           ["--host", "0.0.0.0"],
           "4",
           "--",
@@ -108,6 +111,7 @@ describe("parser", () => {
       cert: {
         value: path.resolve("path/to/cert"),
       },
+      "disable-file-downloads": true,
       enable: ["feature1", "feature2"],
       help: true,
       host: "0.0.0.0",

test/unit/node/plugin.test.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ describe("plugin", () => {
         "proxy-domain": [],
         config: "~/.config/code-server/config.yaml",
         verbose: false,
+        "disable-file-downloads": false,
         usingEnvPassword: false,
         usingEnvHashedPassword: false,
         "extensions-dir": "",