[SSH] Add config option for host and port on which vscode-server is started on the remote

[gyzerok]

Dear VSCode Remote Extensions team,

first of all let me thank you for the great work you are doing!

The problem

On the remote host I am using for development port forwarding is allowed, however only for specific pairs of host and port. Currently there seems to be no way to tell Remote - SSH extension which address I would like vscode-server to run on.

For example, I can only forward localhost:3000, but 127.0.0.1:3000 is not allowed.

To verify that my understanding is correct I've created simple node http server and then tried making ssh tunnels on allowed host/port and not allowed host/port. I can confirm that this is indeed the issue.

Proposed feature

Allow to specify host and port on which vscode-server will be started on in the extension settings.

// settings.json
{
  "remote.SSH.remote-address": {
    "host1": "127.0.0.1:8000",
    "host2": "localhost:3000"
  }
}

For future readers

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[gyzerok]

Hello @roblourens!

My apologies if pinging you is a very bad idea.

I have created this issue couple of months ago and have been patiently waiting for it to get labeled ever since.

Nothing have happened and I am wondering if it got accidentally missed due to the volumes of new issues coming in.

My subjective feeling is that it should be really easy to fix, so I am kind of having high hopes that I’ll be able to use VSCode over ssh eventually 😅

Thank you for working on remote extensions!

[gyzerok]

Closing because it seems to be a duplicate, which I didn't notice when first creating.