SSH handler

[trajano]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I'd like to do something like

WinR wt [email protected] Enter

and it will start up or open an new tab in an existing Windows Terminal that will perform an SSH connection.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Note this request is NOT to embed SSH itself to Windows Terminal, but provide some sort of generic handler for command lines with a username@host pattern along with ://@:/ pattern the protocol and ports should be defaultable (in my case if I had the configuration I would default to ssh since I generally work with that.

I was thinking it will be a profile that if not hidden will ask for a URL if selected and the "command" allows for extra fields that would be used to pass in the components

{
    "defaultUriProtocol": "ssh",

    "defaultUriProtocolHandlers":
    {
       "ssh": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001}"
    },

    "profiles":
    [

        {
            "guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001}",
            "commandline" : "%UserProfile%/scoop/apps/git/current/usr/bin/ssh.exe -p ${uri.port} ${uri.user}@${uri.host}",
            "startingDirectory": "%UserProfile%",
            "background": "#000000",            
            "fontFace": "Source Code Pro",
            "icon" : "c:\\opt\\icons8-console-96.png",
            "backgroundImage": "C:\\Users\\trajano\\OneDrive\\app-background\\terminal.png",
            "backgroundImageOpacity": 0.1,
            "name" : "SSH",
            "handlesUriProtocol" : "ssh"
        },

Note I used uri. to prefix it so we don't pollute the default namespace.

[zadjii-msft]

I mean it seems a lot easier to just do win+rwt ssh [email protected]enter then hook all that up, right? That'll just run your default profile with the commandline of ssh [email protected], instead of whatever the commandline is set to

[trajano]

@zadjii-msft except it seems less seamless

If Terminal had this capability then it can probably register itself as a protocol handler for Windows as well so if we click on a link that looks like ssh://[email protected] it will start up terminal

[vbyrd]

I created a small launcher script and protocol registry entries to do exactly this.

https://github.com/vbyrd/windows-terminal-ssh-protocol-handler

[DHowett]

Thanks @vbyrd! Yeah -- in general, I think this is something the community is better-equipped to handle than us. Registering a protocol handler, especially by default like that, is something that I'd like the user to explicitly opt into.

At the same time, I'm not liable to put too many ssh-specific features into Terminal itself. If anything, it would be part of the extension that /dup #1280 turns into.

[ghost]

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