Support stable URLs for endpoints

[codemzy]

Hey gitpod team,

I'm on the premium plan and using one of my workspaces for development work on a repo. I've proxied a url e.g. dev.my-url.com to the url of the exposed port when I'm running the site so I can preview the work on my domain url (because some services I use the api keys are tied to the url) and also I can remember it then etc.

Anyway, this has been working fine, but today I opened the workspace and ran the site on the port, but it seems the workplace url has changed. Is this something that is expected? As in the same workspace may have a different url? I've not created a new workspace from the same repo or anything like that. I can reset up the proxy to the new url, but I would rather not have to keep doing this if it can be avoided. I expect to be working on this project for a few months.

Thanks 😄

[pascuflow]

Still no way to do this? Have too many webhooks and microservices that can't just be spun up with on the fly dynamic urls.

[arel]

First of all, I love gitpod, and I've been a paying customer. But, if there is one reason I will stop using it, it is this issue.

To add my use-case to this issue:

• our company relies on ChromeOS, which is intentionally locked down and makes it impractical or impossible to use the local companion app and other workarounds.
• whenever the URL unpredictably changes, all local state in apps we are developing is effectively lost with no warning (e.g., saved passwords in the browser to everything in localStorage). This causes us to lose data and time (for instance, saved GraphQL queries that are being tested in GraphQL Playground.)
• worse, data loss can happen unpredictably and completely outside the control of the developer (e.g., when a workspace times-out and is reloaded).

[jmls]

is this still an issue or is there now some super option that permits a stable url ? :)

[arel]

GitPod has not prioritized, or even seems to care about, this fundamental flaw. I stopped subscribing a long time ago and moved on.