zed-industries/zed · error

cannot open multiple different remote connections

Error message

cannot open multiple different remote connections

What it means

Raised in parse_ssh_file_path (or the surrounding open-request parser) when the request already references a different remote host/connection. Zed can only open files over one remote connection per request; a second, different connection is rejected.

Source

Thrown at crates/zed/src/zed/open_listener.rs:313

        let username = if url.username().is_empty() {
            None
        } else {
            Some(urlencoding::decode(url.username())?.into_owned())
        };
        let port = url.port();
        anyhow::ensure!(
            self.open_paths.is_empty(),
            "cannot open both local and ssh paths"
        );
        let mut connection_options =
            RemoteSettings::get_global(cx).connection_options_for(host, port, username);
        if let Some(password) = url.password() {
            connection_options.password = Some(urlencoding::decode(password)?.into_owned());
        }

        let connection_options = RemoteConnectionOptions::Ssh(connection_options);
        if let Some(ssh_connection) = &self.remote_connection {
            anyhow::ensure!(
                *ssh_connection == connection_options,
                "cannot open multiple different remote connections"
            );
        }
        self.remote_connection = Some(connection_options);
        self.parse_file_path(url.path());
        Ok(())
    }
}

fn parse_ssh_url(url: &str) -> Result<url::Url> {
    if let Ok(url) = url::Url::parse(url) {
        return Ok(url);
    }
    // SCP/git style urls use ':' to separate from Authority and Path.
    // They are unsupported by Url::parse, but can be normalized into a Url.
    //   SCPUrl("ssh://user@host:~/relpath") => Url("ssh://user@host/~/relpath")
    //   SCPUrl("ssh://user@host:/abs/path") => Url("ssh://user@host/abs/path")

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Solutions

1. Open each SSH host in its own window/session

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/zed/src/zed/open_listener.rs:313 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of zed-industries/zed@f4178619ac (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b711b098d4c5bf1d. Report an issue: GitHub.