Probably been discussed a lot but any
Probably been discussed a lot, but any chance worker subrequests can reach other ports than 80/443? The use case is connecting to an external ClickHouse or ElasticSearch database, typically hosted on port 8123 or 9200, without having to have an intermediary router. Tx
They can't unfortunatelySorry, for digging something up from a couple months ago, but I just stumbled upon this and it seems to blow up my plans for using CF Workers... I want to use Workers as a sort of API gateway, to send off requests to various other places, services etc... and then return the results (manipulated by HTMLRewriter etc...) to the client browser. Some of the requests will be to things like Google Translate (443), but I'll be using Elasticsearch as well as some other microservices using FastAPI. Are you saying that it isn't possible to target a specific port (e.g. 9200) at an IP address/url?
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Nevermind. There's plenty of other discussions in this and other channels that confirm it only works on 80/443. However, it is suggested to use Cloudflare Tunnels to avoid the need for ports altogether. I'll have to explore that.
Actually, this forum post does suggest that non-standard ports are possible, but only if the domain is in the same zone as the worker.
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/worker-fetch-causes-521-error-over-https-on-port-9200/443941
More details here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/full-setup/setup/
I'll have to explore some more. Unless anyone knows more?
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