Calling node.js webserver from scheduler process using heroku

Question

I am using Heroku hosting and have setup a node.js webserver. I now want to run another node script that will send periodic POST requests to the node.js webserver utilizing the Heroku scheduler. When I'm running on my own machine I run the script that generates the POST request as follows:

var request = require('request');
...
request.post("http://localhost:5000/submit").form(some_json_data);

However when I want to deploy to Heroku I want to ensure I want to use the correct HOST and PORT settings (I'm sure the port the webserver runs on won't be 5000 for example). How can achieve this?

Answer 1

Your scheduler job will spin up a new dyno, so if you want to make a post, you'll have to do it to yourapp.heorkuapp.com or yourcustomdomain.com . You therefore do need to care about the port.