Silly question re uplink and self hosted server

Anvil Q&A
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If I run the self hosted server, can I still connect to it using uplink?

I can see from in here :
/home/user/Documents/dev/myproject/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/anvil/server.py

there is a url :

_url = 'wss://anvil.works/uplink'

and this function where I assume I can just send the URL as a parameter :

def connect(key, url='wss://anvil.works/uplink', quiet=False, init_session=None, extra_headers={}):
    global _key, _url, _fatal_error, _quiet, _init_session, _get_extra_headers
    if _key is not None and _key != key:
        if not _quiet:
            print("Disconnecting from previous connection first...")
        disconnect()

    _key = key
    _url = url
    _fatal_error = None # Reset because of reconnection attempt
    _quiet = quiet
    _init_session = init_session
    _get_extra_headers = (lambda: extra_headers) if type(extra_headers) is dict else extra_headers
    _get_connection()

is it as simple as just pointing that to a new location?

I haven’t tried it yet, so this is a bit of a lazy question, but I guess I want to make sure I’m barking up the right tree because even if it seems to work in testing there might be other implications.

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yes, it’s as simple as pointing that url to a different location!

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Thank you, sir! I hoped it was going to be that simple.

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