App Platform Worker Incoming Request

We have a nest backend that we host on app platform, the app is using puppeteer cluster that we want to offload from the main backend to a microservice based node server, for this workload app platform workers just look like the perfect choice but the documentation mentions this: Job and worker components can only send outbound requests to other service components and the internet but cannot receive requests. You cannot customize ports for these types of components.

I am not sure if that means workers cannot accept incoming connection? we wanted to use it as a socket connection from our main application, can anyone confirm that we can’t use it for the said purpose?

I would appreciate if someone can propose us a better solution? we don’t want to expose the service publicly