VSCE: using the CICS extension with a different host breaks Zowe Explorer

[davenice]

Describe the bug

I have multiple hosts in play.
hosta is a z/OSMF host which is https and using a self-signed certificate
hostb hosts a CMCI connection - either https with self-signed certificate or http (no ssl)
I am specifying "rejectUnauthorized": false on both profiles.

Using the CICS extension breaks the Zowe Explorer extension.

Recreation steps

I connect to hosta with z/OSMF correctly and browse data sets.
I connect to hostb with the CICS extension correctly and browse CICS resources.
I attempt to refresh my hosta z/OSMF data sets and receive this error: Retrieving response from MVS list API Error: Failed to send an HTTP request.

I reload my VS Code and able to connect to z/OSMF on hosta correctly, again.

If I stick to just using hostb consistently, I am able to use both z/OSMF and CMCI.

Describe your environment

• Zowe CLI version installed (run command zowe --version): CLI Version: 8.8.2, Zowe Release Version: v3.0.0
• Zowe Explorer version installed: 3.0.3
• Installed plug-ins and their version numbers (run command zowe plugins list --short): no plugins
• Installed z/OS-related VSCode Extensions and their version numbers: CICS - 3.0.1
• Node.js and NPM versions installed (run node --version, npm --version): v22.9.0, 10.8.3

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[davenice]

@AndrewTwydell - I think you've had a poke at debugging this?

[AndrewTwydell]

Seems to be caused by the https library global overrides of the rejectUnauthorized value, which doesn't seem to take effect properly when using Axios for requests. Our workaround is moving away from Axios for HTTP requests and using the CICS SDK's getResource method to get all our data. This takes an Imperative Session instance which correctly handles rejectUnauthorized.