GitHub authentication

[mani144]

Greetings Faris ,

mid there a way to bypass the authentication process for GitHub Copilot, because the plug-in that is in vscode is not fully offline , but needs authentication in order to make your middleware works.

thanks a lot

[FarisHijazi]

that's an interesting problem, I was not aware of this, I always was authenticated when trying it out.
Could you somehow find out what the exact authentication call is? maybe using wireshark or tcpdump?

[FarisHijazi]

what you can do now is use a different frontend like fauxpilot frontend or code-clippy

• https://github.com/FarisHijazi/gpt-code-clippy
• https://github.com/Venthe/vscode-fauxpilot

[mani144]

that's an interesting problem, I was not aware of this, I always was authenticated when trying it out. Could you somehow find out what the exact authentication call is? maybe using wireshark or tcpdump?

i will check it once i have time , i think the best solution currently is to create opensource VSIX that will do Github Copilot work without the need for too many dependencies.
for example fauxpilot will require fauxpilot server ( which runs on docker and requires nvidia ) which limits the customization of a backend.

[FarisHijazi]

I think fauxpilot frontend can run on oobabooga. I'm not a fan of fauxpilot server

[joshfranzen]

I had a similar issue with the github copilot extension failing to initialize the extension due to being unable to retrieve a token from github for the copilot subscription.

[FarisHijazi]

Could you guys run wireshark or tcpdump to capture the authentication request, maybe we could make an endpoint to emulate that and accept the auth

[joshfranzen]

Just found a similar issue on the FauxPilot repo:

fauxpilot/fauxpilot#1 (comment)

Edit:
Here's a step-by-step:

fauxpilot/fauxpilot#1 (comment)