Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When using Cursor with a WSL2 workspace on Windows, ctrl-clicking a http://localhost : link such as http://localhost:4200 opens a different forwarded port like localhost:4201 or a random high port instead of opening the origina…

Hey, this is a known issue, we’re already tracking it from the original thread: Cursor rewrites localhost URLs on WSL instead of opening the original port . Unfortunately, the workaround with remote.autoForwardPorts: false doesn’t help, other users have confirmed that too. For now the only option is…

Cursor automatically rewrites localhost URLs on WSL instead of opening the original port

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Cursor automatically rewrites localhost URLs on WSL instead of opening the original port

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