I cant seem to find out if the regex or the conditional statement or both is wrong i also cant seem to generate a short url

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app.post('/api/shorturl', (req,res,next) => {
  let fullUrl = req.body
  let test = /^https:/.test(fullUrl) 
  if(!test){
    res.json({error: "invalid url"})
  }
  res.json({original_url: fullUrl, short_url: 2})
  next()
})
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Hi, @Wrld_runs_on_Code

Can you please point us to the exercise you are trying to solve?

The Regex in your script come out as true if the fullUrl starts with “https:”.

I just tried this on the developer console of my browser:

/^https:/.test('https://www.google.com/')

Is that what you want?

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I believe this might require more work, but without having an idea what you want to achieve or what problem you want to solve it is difficult to say, @Wrld_runs_on_Code

We hope to get more information from you so we can help you better.

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Don’t use that regex. If you are doing this locally, it has to support http because the test uses the submitted project URL for the tests. You can also use a package like valid-url or the dns.lookup method from nodejs.