title: How to use a remote Jupyter server in VSCode?
body: <p>I want to use a remote Jupyter server via SSH with VSCode but I get an error whenever I try to specify the URI of any server. This also happens with local instances of Jupyter. Any server that is not started by VS Code seems to be unusable.</p>
  <p>I am just starting a server like this</p>
  <pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>$ jupyter notebook --no-browser --port 8080
  </code></pre>
  <p>Then I  enter the address in VSCode with the correct port and token
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EkqcP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EkqcP.png" alt="http://localhost:8080/?token=..." /></a></p>
  <p>Nothing happens and I get this error, as you can see in the log below.</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Command 'Python: Specify local or remote Jupyter server for connections' resulted in an error (Running the contributed command: 'python.datascience.selectjupyteruri' failed.)</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWwTQ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWwTQ.png" alt="VSCode console log" /></a></p>
  <p>Has anyone else been experiencing anything similar? I honestly have no idea how to troubleshoot this. It is worth noting that selecting the <strong>Default:</strong> <em>VS Code will automatically start a server for you on localhost</em> option raises the same error.</p>