Could not connect to remote docker server

[davidkhala]

Configured as documented, but the connection fallback to target local host instead of a remote host
No matter how I set host or port (even with those non-exist ones)

Influenced environment
dockerode@3.2.0
Docker version 19.03.8,

[rystaf]

#540

[davidkhala]

I get it fixed by explicitly setting protocol to be 'ssh', but then another question is, why http(s) protocol is default?
Most google returned search results about access remote docker host use DOCKER_HOST env variable starting with ssh://.

[apocas]

#540 was fixed.

SSH support in the Docker Remote API is way more recent than HTTP, that's why :)
dockerode was created when Docker's Remote API was very very young, few years ago.