I'm developing a program in Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 which starts an HTTP server and attempts to bind to localhost:8000.
When I run the tests for this program by clicking "Run Test" in VSCode, a temporary binary is created and executed. When this happens, Windows Firewall blocks access to locahost:8000, prompting me to allow access for future executions.
The generated test binaries look like this:
C:\users\<my user>\appdata\local\temp\go-build297997386\b001\<myapp>.test.exe
C:\users\<my user>\appdata\local\temp\go-build683612242\b001\<myapp>.test.exe
C:\users\<my user>\appdata\local\temp\go-build304551042\b001\<myapp>.test.exe
Because the binaries have an unpredictable path, I am unable to create a Windows Firewall rule to allow that binary to bind to localhost:8000. I have tried creating Windows Firewall rules to allow all traffic to and from localhost:8000, but I still get the same binary-specific prompts when running the test code.
There are several unanswered and unsolved questions on this topic. Here are a few I found through searches: 1 2 3 4 5
There are two more solutions which only work for files which already exist, automating the process of creating firewall rules: 1 2
How can I get Windows Firewall to stop blocking the test code from binding to the local port?
