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JavaScript

Posted by matthewshear
matthewshear
9,229 Points

Is anyone else having problems with the Workplaces in the "Node.js Basics" course?

In the video, the teacher is retrieving a JSON file, which I can also receive if I type the URL in my address bar, so the file is there.

Unfortunately, the statusCode of the response is always 301 (file moved) instead of 200 (ok), so I can't actually make any of the things the teacher is doing happen whether I try it in the launched workspace or on my own machine where I have Node installed.

I'll type "node app.js" and it just writes that bad statusCode to the console and errors out.

JavaScript

var http = require("http"); var request = http.get("http://teamtreehouse.com/chalkers.json", function(response) { var responseBody = "";

console.log(response.statusCode);

response.on("data", function(dataChunk) {
    console.log('test');
  responseBody += dataChunk;
  console.log(dataChunk);
});

});

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi! I believe that between the writing of this module and now, the protocol has been changed from using http to using https (which is a more secure form of http). Try updating your code to use https instead of http. Let me know if this works for you! :sparkles:

matthewshear
matthewshear
9,229 Points

lol.. yep! I just figured that out. Why don't they mention this in the course?! It's more than a little important if you want anything to make sense. Thanks!