Reaching GitHub Codespaces Forwarded Ports

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I've tried a couple of times to run a Jetty web server in a Clojure project on a GitHub Codespace, and the directions for port forwarding are very clear, and very easily done in the IDE, but when I try to "Open in Browser" - while in Safari on my iPad, I get nothing. And when I "Copy URL" I get 127.0.0.1:8080 which is "correct" as far as the documentation goes, but it's not working because in a browser, there's no way a browser page can redirect the localhost address.

So the only way this is going to work is if the VS Code IDE can open up a web page to the back-end, and show it there. Or... if they can open up ports based on the URL to get to the Codespace. They are all unique, so it's not impossible to image that... but it'd take work.

This is going to be important because as you develop things, you need to be able to interact with them, and being able to hit a web server, or a RESTful interface is kinda important. But hey... this is still in beta, and I noticed this morning that they have been making changes to the Codespaces page on GitHub, so I'll give them time.