Back End Development and APIs Projects - URL Shortener Microservice

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Tell us what’s happening:
My solution passes all test cases except the last one:

If you pass an invalid URL that doesn’t follow the valid http://www.example.com format, the JSON response will contain { error: ‘invalid url’ }

Trying it manually, it worked just fine. Can someone kindly help me out?

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solution: https://fcc-url-shortener-microservice-xi.vercel.app

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An important part of programming is testing the code so its outcome is as you expected to be.
Can you type a couple of examples of invalid URL you have tried so far?

Another thing I have noticed is that when I keep inserting the same URL over and over again, it’s short version keeps changing as well. That’s a waste of storage space, don’t you think?

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const url = require('url').URL;

const url2 = new url(urlToShorten);

You are relying on a functionality of the URL module which relies on a correct input
and is not solely made for a purpose of verifying correct web address URL.

The required format is http://www.example.com or https://www.example.com
but your API also accepts URL like C://hello.txt.

You need to ensure that the format is correct yourself. And when you do that, you don’t even need the url module for that.

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Hey!

Thank you very much for pointing that out.
I have been able to correct it and it passes the test now

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