How to add a port number to the app inventor url

[q quickmail]

My programming skills are as good as the information I get from forums like these.

But I finally managed to produce a small app in python that gets and sends small pieces of data for home controlmover the web.

I would like to use app inventor as it is a great way to show what is actualy happening, the direct updating of

changes works fantastic.

Problem is that I can't use the portnumber in the url, the standard 8001 portnumber of ai2 is not accepted.

My python program connects fine with the port forwarding.

Is there a way to get the ip and port number as a webaddress in the url? 

Thanks in advance.

[Scott Ferguson]

I am pretty sure that I have seen url's using port addresses that users have used when connecting with external devices.

The url ends with a ':NNNN' suffix.

Try searching the forum to see if you can find some examples.

See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mitappinventortest/2rQNmKMYkRE/tps-Lz_s52oJ

and: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mitappinventortest/arduino$20url/mitappinventortest/mU4n5tLCh4Y/TeLSgml-hf0J

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[q quickmail]

Hello Scott,

You are absolutely right I did not just wanted to send the portnumber, but the combination ip:port.

Best thing of it all is that your second link is spot on.

I can now connect to my home raspberry from anywhere in the world and send my 5 bytes.

I have no idea how you found this link but I am over the moon.

Many thanks.