rejectUnauthorized=false via agent no longer works in vscode

[mullr]

If you want to connect to a server using a self-signed cert using node-fetch, the commonly documented technique is to explicitly supply an agent:

const https = require("https");
const agent = new https.Agent({ rejectUnauthorized: false });
fetch("https://localhost/", { agent: agent });

This works fine in node. It used to work fine in vscode as well, but it recently stopped working. They seem to have no interest in fixing this: microsoft/vscode#173314

It would be nice to be able to continue to do this.