Issue with Cursor Remote Development Connection - 404 Error for VS/Cursor Code Server

Describe the Bug

While I can successfully connect to my remote Windows desktop using Visual Studio Code’s Remote - SSH extension, I am encountering a persistent error when attempting to do the same within Cursor.

The specific error I’m seeing is: “Failed to download VS Code Server (Server returned 404)”. I’ve confirmed that the download URL provided in the logs (https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/ef5eeb47a684b4c217dfaf0463aa7ea952f8ab90/cli-win32-x64.tar.gz) returns a 404 error when accessed directly.

I have verified that I am using the latest version of Cursor and its associated remote development extensions.

Given that VS Code connects without issue, I suspect there might be a misconfiguration or an issue with the specific version of the VS Code Server that Cursor is trying to access or provide.Could you please investigate this issue?

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor
  2. Connect via SSH to another system
  3. <Error downloading the Cursor CLI server (404)>

Expected Behavior

  1. Open Cursor
  2. Connect via SSH to another system
  3. Downloads the Cursor CLI Server
  4. Server & client communicates and establishes connection
  5. Code!

The steps are the same for both Cursor and Visual Studio Code.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.5 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.962
Commit: ef5eeb47a684b4c217dfaf0463aa7ea952f8ab90
Date: (3 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.06834210
Node.js 20.19.0
V8: 132.152.41 -electron.o
OS: Windows_NT 10.026100

Additional Information

Image I’ve uploaded is the Remote SSH extension, for info.

Both machines (client and server) are on Windows 11. If it matters, I SSH from my laptop to my desktop on the local network (due to a higher performance GPU on my desktop). But again, this works with VS Code, so I don’t think it’s my network configuration issue, but rather the tarball is missing on the server (hence the 404)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable