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Cannot establish connection using port number explicitly

I am new to servers and networking so pardon my ignorance.

I have a Heroku application running a NodeJS server. I am using console.log() to output the port its using to the console. But when i use the port to try to perform a GET request from my browser it keep loading forever. My request is something this:

https://example.herokuapp.com:28222/getHighest

When i remove the port number, it works perfectly:

https://example.herokuapp.com/getHighest

I am ultimately trying to perform GET and POST request from a C application. The HTTP library i am using seemingly requires a port for a connection. I am using this library: GitHub. It works perfectly when i run it locally with localhost:8080/getHighest but not when i use my heroku app.

Solution

  • As suggested by @tadman using the default https port 443 solved the issue.