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heroku-routing

Install the heroku-routing client plugin:

$ heroku plugins:install https://github.com/JacobVorreuter/heroku-routing

Create an app using the node template:

$ git clone git@github.com:JacobVorreuter/hello-node.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/hello-node/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 26, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13/13), done.
remote: Total 26 (delta 12), reused 26 (delta 12)
Receiving objects: 100% (26/26), done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), done.

$ cd hello-node/

$ heroku create --stack cedar
Creating blazing-mist-4424... done, stack is cedar
http://blazing-mist-4424.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:blazing-mist-4424.git
Git remote heroku added
$ git push heroku master
Counting objects: 26, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (13/13), done.
Writing objects: 100% (26/26), 2.43 KiB, done.
Total 26 (delta 12), reused 26 (delta 12)

-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Node.js app detected
-----> Fetching Node.js binaries
-----> Vendoring node 0.4.7
-----> Installing dependencies with npm 1.0.94
       express@2.1.1 ./node_modules/express 
       ├── mime@1.2.4
       ├── qs@0.4.0
       └── connect@1.8.3
       Dependencies installed
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> web
-----> Compiled slug size is 6.9MB
-----> Launching... done, v2
       http://blazing-mist-4424.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

To git@heroku.com:blazing-mist-4424.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Create a TCP route:

$ heroku routes:create
Creating route... done
tcp://route.heroku.com:26393

List routes:

$ heroku routes
Route                         Process 
----------------------------  ----------
tcp://route.heroku.com:26393              

Attach your web.1 process to your TCP route:

$ heroku routes:attach tcp://route.heroku.com:26393 web.1
Attaching route tcp://route.heroku.com:26393 to web.1... done

$ heroku routes
Route                         Process 
----------------------------  ----------
tcp://route.heroku.com:26393  web.1

Connect to your TCP endpoint:

$ telnet route.heroku.com 26393
Trying 107.20.247.209...
Connected to ec2-107-20-247-209.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive

body complete

^C

Destroy your route:

$ heroku routes:destroy tcp://route.heroku.com:26393 
Destroying route tcp://route.heroku.com:26393... done