Ngrok or Pagekite on glitch?

Glitch Help
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Is it possible to use pagekite or ngrok on glitch?

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Yes, but why would you need it? Ngrok is for opening either a TCP or HTTP tunnel to the public Ngrok servers, suitable for people who don’t have access to port-forwarding. With glitch port 3000 is exposed as .glitch.me:<80|443>

You don’t actually have to create a web-server with Glitch, you could open a minecraft server, or a TCP socket server.

Do you have any specific usage for Ngrok or Pagekite. What do you want to achieve? It might (or most likely) is possible without them.

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You can actually only expose HTTP servers with glitch. Ngrok et al. is needed for TCP.

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Yes you can use them.

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Actually, this is not technically correct. The server (container) exposes its ports, what you’re thinking of is whether or not the client can reach it (hence the reverse-proxy). As long as the TCP connection opens following the HTTP(S) connecting spec it can still actually connect to a TCP server tunneled through HTTP (tunneling a TCP connection through the reverse-proxy).