Is there a way to modify the VSCode certificate store to add certificates?

Question

Currently, the only way to use VSCode get around a corporate firewall that requires company CA certificates is to set "http.proxyStrictSSL = false" in the config. This is a no-go for me at work. I know that VSCode uses the Chromium networking stack, so there is a way to modify the certificate store when building VSCode (as stated here: Getting Chrome to accept self-signed localhost certificate, for example)?

Answer 1

According to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/network, the solution is to edit the system certificate store:

Since Chromium uses the OS's certificate trust infrastructure, the preferred option is to add your proxy's certificate to your OS's trust chain.

This means that your answer is OS-dependent:

• Windows: Powershell Import-Certificate or the GUI equivalent
• Mac: Via Keychain Access
• NSS under linux - it is unclear which NSS database it uses. certutil is used to edit them.