TCP sockets

connect() is imported from cloudflare:sockets for outbound TCP. The API shape matches Cloudflare TCP sockets. The network policy boundary does not.

import { connect } from "cloudflare:sockets";

export default {
  async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
    const socket = connect({ hostname: "example.com", port: 80 });
    const writer = socket.writable.getWriter();
    await writer.write(new TextEncoder().encode("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"));
    await writer.close();
    return new Response(socket.readable, {
      headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain" },
    });
  },
} satisfies ExportedHandler;

Full Socket / SocketAddress / SocketOptions / startTls() signatures: Cloudflare TCP sockets. Do not create a socket in global scope and share it across requests.

Compatibility

Topic	Cloudflare	open-compute
connect(address, options?) returns a Socket with readable / writable / opened / closed / close() / startTls()	Yes	Yes
secureTransport: off | on | starttls	Yes	Yes
Tenant general outbound fetch(), cloudflare:sockets.connect(), node:net	Cloudflare hosted network policy	Share one stock-workerd Network(allow=["public"])
Named Service/DO Fetcher.connect()	Hosted policy	Uses the declared capability tunnel; not a second general outbound
Cloudflare-owned IP-range block / Worker self-connect (TCP Loop) / default SMTP port 25 prohibition	Yes — troubleshooting	Not provided
Private / loopback / link-local / metadata / Unix	Rejected	Rejected by the public address layer