wslopenproxy

wsl-open-proxy

wsl-open-proxy is a Windows application that can be registered as default application handlers in WSL environments.

It launches the application registered as a default application in the Windows side.

Installation

Installation using Go

You need to have Go installed in your WSL environment up front.

$ go run github.com/qnighy/wsl-open-proxy/cmd/setup-wsl-open@latest

To configure the proxy for other filetypes than HTML, do for example:

$ go run github.com/qnighy/wsl-open-proxy/cmd/setup-wsl-open@latest -t image

Installing a prebuilt executable

Download the prebuilt setup command setup-wsl-open from the Releases page.

$ ./setup-wsl-open
# Or, for configuring the proxy for other filetypes than HTML:
$ ./setup-wsl-open -t image

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Development tips

When developing setup-wsl-open in Linux using VS Code, the following configuration might be useful:

// .vscode/settings.json
{
    "go.toolsEnvVars": {
        "GOOS": "windows"
    }
}

Releasing

1. Update version.go
2. Tag the version using v0.0.0 format
3. Push the tag and wait for the automatic release to complete

License

Licensed under the MIT License.

Related projects

wsl-open achieves the same purpose.