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Hitting OPENSSL_internal:BAD_DECRYPT error on call to v1/user-info. #356
Description
Description
Only after a new action of installing or enabling the extension of Colab in VSCode, I am able to add a new runtime only in one way - choose the “Auto Connect" function, as "New Colab Server" is usually unavailable. So I can only use a runtime with CPU by default! If I close that runtime manually, nothing would happen after I click any button while selecting a remote server. This extension is nearly unusable now..
Environment
- Version: 1.109.0-insider (user setup)
- Date: 2026-01-15T22:32:27.277Z
- OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
- Colab extension version: 0.1.6
- Jupyter extension version: 2025.9.1
Additional context
There are too many bugs and few functions in the extension.
Logs
[2026-01-16T11:54:48.071Z] [Info] Visual Studio Code - Insiders: 1.109.0-insider
[2026-01-16T11:54:48.071Z] [Info] Remote: N/A
[2026-01-16T11:54:48.071Z] [Info] App Host: desktop
[2026-01-16T11:54:48.071Z] [Info] Jupyter extension version: 2025.9.1
[2026-01-16T11:57:11.970Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers called with
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T11:57:11.970Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T11:57:11.970Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers Promise resolved, args and error:
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[]
[2026-01-16T11:57:11.975Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands called with
undefined
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T11:57:11.975Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T11:57:13.087Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands Promise resolved, args and error:
undefined
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[
{
"label": "$(symbol-event) Auto Connect",
"description": "1-click connect! Most recently created server, or a new one."
},
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
},
{
"label": "$(link-external) Open Colab Web",
"description": "Open Colab web."
}
]
[2026-01-16T11:57:27.270Z] [Trace] Kr.handleCommand called with
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
}
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T11:57:27.270Z] [Trace] Kr.handleCommand returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T11:57:51.514Z] [Trace] Kr.handleCommand Promise rejected, args and error:
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
}
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
Canceled: Canceled
at Kr.assignServer (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\google.colab-0.1.6\out\extension.js:67:56121)
at Kr.handleCommand (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\google.colab-0.1.6\out\extension.js:67:55694)
at Vb.selectRemoteServerFromRemoteKernelFinder (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2025.9.1-win32-x64\dist\extension.node.js:309:152718)
at Vb.getRemoteServersFromProvider (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2025.9.1-win32-x64\dist\extension.node.js:309:152373)
at sE.stepThrough (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2025.9.1-win32-x64\dist\extension.node.js:183:11953)
at Vb.selectRemoteKernel (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2025.9.1-win32-x64\dist\extension.node.js:309:147349)
at Lb.onSelectRemoteKernel (c:\Users\WSZ03.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2025.9.1-win32-x64\dist\extension.node.js:309:124890)
at xA.h (file:///e:/Program%20Files/Microsoft_VS_Code_Insiders/1656700d1d/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:116:41743)
at xA.h (file:///e:/Program%20Files/Microsoft_VS_Code_Insiders/1656700d1d/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:116:41743)
[2026-01-16T11:58:48.759Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers called with
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T11:58:48.759Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T11:58:48.760Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers Promise resolved, args and error:
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[]
[2026-01-16T11:58:48.760Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands called with
undefined
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T11:58:48.760Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T11:58:49.624Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands Promise resolved, args and error:
undefined
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[
{
"label": "$(symbol-event) Auto Connect",
"description": "1-click connect! Most recently created server, or a new one."
},
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
},
{
"label": "$(link-external) Open Colab Web",
"description": "Open Colab web."
}
]
[2026-01-16T11:58:53.308Z] [Trace] Kr.handleCommand called with
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
}
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T11:58:53.308Z] [Trace] Kr.handleCommand returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T11:58:54.389Z] [Trace] Kr.handleCommand Promise rejected, args and error:
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
}
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
FetchError: Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://colab.pa.googleapis.com/v1/user-info: 272640:error:1e000065:Cipher functions:OPENSSL_internal:BAD_DECRYPT:....\third_party\boringssl\src\crypto\fipsmodule\cipher\e_aes.cc.inc:839:
at Gunzip.<anonymous> (c:\Users\WSZ03\.vscode-insiders\extensions\google.colab-0.1.6\out\extension.js:1:296619)
at Gunzip.emit (node:events:531:35)
at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8)
at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)
[2026-01-16T12:03:40.795Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers called with
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T12:03:40.795Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T12:03:40.795Z] [Trace] Kr.provideJupyterServers Promise resolved, args and error:
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[]
[2026-01-16T12:03:40.795Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands called with
undefined
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[2026-01-16T12:03:40.795Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands returned a Promise
[2026-01-16T12:03:41.707Z] [Trace] Kr.provideCommands Promise resolved, args and error:
undefined
{
"a": false,
"b": null
}
[
{
"label": "$(symbol-event) Auto Connect",
"description": "1-click connect! Most recently created server, or a new one."
},
{
"label": "$(add) New Colab Server",
"description": "CPU, GPU or TPU."
},
{
"label": "$(link-external) Open Colab Web",
"description": "Open Colab web."
},
{
"label": "$(accounts-view-bar-icon) Upgrade to Pro",
"description": "More machines, more quota, more Colab!"
}
]
Activity
kevineger commentedon Jan 16, 2026
What do you mean by this? The option doesn't exist in the UI? Or it consistently doesn't work?
By close do you mean you removed the server (Commmand:
Colab: Remove Server)? There is the known issue #200 which I fixed upstream in the Jupyter extension microsoft/vscode-jupyter#17094. Hopefully they release it soon. I'm unsure given the description if that's what you're hitting, or something else. A screencast would be super helpful if it's possible to record one.Trying to tease things apart from the logs, here's what I'm seeing.
New Colab Server, but then selecting a server was cancelled.v1/user-infowhich implies this call to get the subscription tier is failing.Is this consistently happening to you? Or did it happen once?
OPENSSL_internal:BAD_DECRYPTis strange, as it indicates that maybe the encrypted TLS/SSL stream between your VS Code and the Google server was corrupted or tampered with before it could be successfully decrypted. Do you use a Corporate Proxy, Firewall, or VPN?[-]Unable to add a runtime[/-][+]Hitting OPENSSL_internal:BAD_DECRYPT error on call to `v1/user-info`.[/+]imBlanker commentedon Jan 16, 2026
@kevineger Thank you for reply!
I wrote down the only situation that all those buttons except "New Colab Server" could work:
For example, let's click "kernel" in jupyter notebook -> click "Colab" -> click "New Colab Server" -> the choice & input box disappear, game over, and we can see a warning in the "Output" area. This is consistently happening to me. Here are the screencast records:
No. 1
No. 2
The copilot-like extensions keep updated frequently, while colab-vscode's last release was 3 weeks ago, even though there are many interesting products published / released by Deepmind last year.
I have only free tier of Colab, even without PAY AS YOU GO. Today I have used up all the units, so of course it didn't allow me to choose GPU or TPU runtime; but yesterday when I submitted the issue, I had enough GPU compute units left, so I shouldn't have been stopped from choosing them in this way (someone has submitted that issue, but I don't know what problem there exactly was). Maybe it was just a network problem - yeah, I am & was using proxies. I am using WLAN with VPN in a campus, and I am using proxies with VMESS/VLESS/sth else. I tried to load Colab-vscode even with proxy+tun, but neither with tun nor without tun it failed to work.
Encryption combinations:
But I doubt if this is the key because I can connect with most common servers with HTTP(S) or SSH. I used remote servers to work before also with proxies.
So could you help me more?
Colab2.log