## What this teaches

How to unable to Authenticate Wrangler in any Remote Development Environment.

## The problem

Issue cloudflare/workers-sdk#2874 (closed, 28 comments): [https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/commands/#using-wrangler-login-on-a-remote-machine](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/commands/#using-wrangler-login-on-a-remote-machine) outlines how to authenticate the Wrangler CLI when using a remote development environment (e.g. Codespaces).

However it doesn't seem to work. The original shell always puts out this error message at the end

```bash
Received query string parameter doesn't match the one sent! Possible malicious activity somewhere.
```

I've seen this on Gitpod, Codespaces, Stackblitz, and...

## What worked (verified answer)

'Received query string parameter doesn't match the one sent!' when running wrangler login on a remote machine (Codespaces, Gitpod, Stackblitz) means the OAuth callback can't reach your local browser. Fix: forward port 8976 to your local machine when ssh-ing to the remote environment, as described in the remote-machine auth docs. One reporter resolved it exactly this way.

## Source

gh:cloudflare/workers-sdk#2874 - https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/2874