Development, Tools, Visual Studio

Self-signed certificate chain problems with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

My customers have been excited to start using and experimenting with GitHub Copilot. Their proof of value has really proven to be beneficial in a lot of their development aspects. Some of them have tougher security controls in their corporate environments. One of them is SSL inspection through their firewall/NVA. This had lead to the dreadful error: [CopilotClientManager Information] statusNotification: Warning: The pending stream has been canceled (caused by: self-signed certificate in certificate chain)[CopilotClientManager Error] [ghostText] Error on ghost text request: FetchError: The pending stream has been canceled (caused by: self-signed certificate in certificate chain) The GitHub engineering team is aware of the problem. While the tools continue to improve and a more native fix / solution can hopefully be baked in, as I tell my customers, always open a support ticket to help the engineering team navigate these issues. If your organization is doing SSL inspection and you have access to the Root certificate (and it…

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