OpenShift TCPS routes

I found a way to monitor the route traffic. When I curl the url for the tcp-smf on port 80 you will see a spike in the traffic graph. At 13:46 on the graph I attempted to run the java code against the same url and port number - no traffic was detected. Is there something specific about the java code that is looking for 55555 or 55443 and if it does not find it, then it fails?