feat: 🎸 Prevent automatically sending SSH command on windows (#1906)

✅ Closes: ICU-11109

ui/desktop/app/components/session/tabs/index.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Component from '@glimmer/component';
 import { action } from '@ember/object';
+import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
 import { Terminal } from 'xterm';
 import { FitAddon } from 'xterm-addon-fit';
 import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
@@ -10,6 +11,10 @@ const terminalOptions = {
 };
 
 export default class SessionTerminalTabsComponent extends Component {
+  // =services
+
+  @service ipc;
+
   // =attributes
 
   id;
@@ -19,7 +24,7 @@ export default class SessionTerminalTabsComponent extends Component {
   // =actions
 
   @action
-  openTerminal() {
+  async openTerminal() {
     // Don't re-initialize the terminal if it's already been opened
     if (this.terminal) {
       return;
@@ -39,8 +44,11 @@ export default class SessionTerminalTabsComponent extends Component {
     this.id = uuidv4();
     this.#setupTerminal(fitAddon, xterm);
 
+    const { isWindows } = await this.ipc.invoke('checkOS');
     const { model } = this.args;
-    if (model.target?.isSSH) {
+
+    // Don't send the command on windows as most users won't have an openSSH client installed
+    if (model.target?.isSSH && !isWindows) {
       const { proxy_address, proxy_port } = model;
 
       // Send an SSH command immediately
@@ -69,13 +77,14 @@ export default class SessionTerminalTabsComponent extends Component {
     // Terminal is exposed by contextBridge within the preload script
     window.terminal.create({ id: this.id, cols: xterm.cols, rows: xterm.rows });
     xterm.onData((data) => window.terminal.send(data, this.id));
+
+    // Save the handler to cleanup the listener on the renderer process later
     this.removeListener = window.terminal.receive((event, value) => {
       xterm.write(value);
     }, this.id);
 
-    // Handle resizing terminal windows. We debounce the resizing as we
-    // don't want to resize xterm and the pty process before the previous
-    // one has finished
+    // Handle resizing terminal windows. We debounce the resizing as we don't want
+    // to resize xterm and the pty process before the previous one has finished
     const debouncedFit = debounce(() => {
       fitAddon.fit();
     }, 150);

ui/desktop/electron-app/src/ipc/handlers.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ const boundaryCli = require('../cli/index.js');
 const sessionManager = require('../services/session-manager.js');
 const runtimeSettings = require('../services/runtime-settings.js');
 const sanitizer = require('../utils/sanitizer.js');
-const { isMac } = require('../helpers/platform.js');
+const { isLinux, isMac, isWindows } = require('../helpers/platform.js');
 const os = require('node:os');
 const pty = require('node-pty');
 
@@ -111,6 +111,15 @@ handle('toggleFullscreenWindow', () => {
  */
 handle('closeWindow', () => app.quit());
 
+/**
+ * Return an object containing helper fields for determining what OS we're running on
+ */
+handle('checkOS', () => ({
+  isLinux: isLinux(),
+  isMac: isMac(),
+  isWindows: isWindows(),
+}));
+
 /**
  * Handler to help create terminal windows. We don't use the helper `handle` method
  * as we need access to the event and don't need to be using `ipcMain.handle`.
@@ -119,7 +128,9 @@ ipcMain.on('createTerminal', (event, payload) => {
   const { id, cols, rows } = payload;
   const { sender } = event;
   const terminalShell =
-    os.platform() === 'win32' ? 'powershell.exe' : process.env.SHELL || '/bin/bash';
+    os.platform() === 'win32'
+      ? 'powershell.exe'
+      : process.env.SHELL || '/bin/bash';
   const ptyProcess = pty.spawn(terminalShell, [], {
     name: 'xterm-color',
     cols,
@@ -152,6 +163,7 @@ ipcMain.on('createTerminal', (event, payload) => {
   ipcMain.once(removeChannel, () => {
     // Just let the error bubble up since we can't do anything
     try {
+      //  TODO: Should we be killing entire process tree in windows with its pid?
       ptyProcess.kill();
     } finally {
       // Remove listeners