Information Security: Stock Price Checker Project: Glitch is Cutting off Request Path

#1

I’m doing the Stock Price Checker Project on Glitch. I am on one of the first requirements:

I can GET /api/stock-prices with form data containing a Nasdaq stock ticker and receive back an object stockData.

Something very strange happens that I cannot fix. I am using the boilerplate code for this project. And in api.js I have this GET route:

  app.route('/api/stock-prices')
    .get(function (req, res)
    {
       console.log("we made it to get")
    })

Now this works fine, but then I add this code to do an https request to a different site it in an attempt to get stock info as per the project’s instructions:

  app.route('/api/stock-prices')
    .get(function (req, res)
    {
      console.log("we made it to get")

      var ticker = req.query.stock
      if (ticker.length)
      {
        console.log("we got the ticker")
        //Create the https request
        var path = "v1/stock/" + ticker + "/quote"
        var options = {
          host: "repeated-alpaca.glitch.me",
          path: path,
          method: "GET",
          headers: {}
        };
    
        var httpsRequest = https.request(options, function (res) 
        {
            var responseString = "";

            res.on("data", function (data) {
                responseString += data;
                // save all the data from response
            });
            res.on("end", function () {
                console.log(responseString); 
                // print to console when response ends
            });
        });
        
        httpsRequest.on('error', (error) => {
          console.log(error)
        })
        
        httpsRequest.end();
     }
   });

Now for all I know this code is completely wrong and I did initially get some sort of errors with it. But here is the fatal problem. My express app now permanently cuts off all request paths no matter what I do. I have deleted all this extra code that I put in and my request’s path still stays permanetly cut off. What I mean is that before I put in this extra code, my request path would look like this:

/api/stock-prices?stock=testname

But permanently after putting in the code, even after I deleted it, my requests path always look like this:

/?stock=sdf

So it’s always directing me back to the home page now. I am utterly stumped how to fix this. I’m worried it’s an error with Glitch and there’s no way to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas.

#2