Implementing an Editor Proxy in WebShell

I added an editor feature to WebShell last year. It’s finally stable now. Here’s a summary.

Research

1. Few terminal products ship an editor; most only provide SFTP.
2. Google

Architecture

Implementation

Key steps:

1. On the server, SSH into the target machine and install/run code-server
2. Use SSH port forwarding to expose the internal code-server service
3. Run a proxy server to receive browser requests and forward them to the user’s machine, reaching code-server

Final Thoughts

done!