Azure throws error when making an axios http request in node.js API

Question

I created a node application using express and uploaded it to an Azure web application. Whenever I send a response like

router.get("/search=:search", (req, res) => res.send("Response"));

The API works fine and I get the response, but I included axios to make http requests such as:

const http = require("axios");

const url = "https://yts.torrentbay.to/api/v2/list_movies.jsonp?query_term=shrek";

router.get("/search=:search", async (req, res) => {
  await http.get(url);
  res.send("Response")
});

Now this works perfectly on my local machine when testing but Azure throws a 500 Internal Server Error . Should I use the built-in http library in node? Could the problem be where the request is made to the URL?

EDIT: I discovered that the problem is with the URL. I tried google.com and it worked so how could I fix this?

Answer 1

• if you want the api to work with the wrong url then one of the work around is to add a catch block(error handling )

• you are getting this error because the http.get is not getting any response and it is waiting for a long time.

• You can add a catch block which will get triggered when the http.get fails to get a response.

• Inside the catch you can then add a response thus even if you don't get response in http.get you get a response from your own Api.

router.get("/search=:search", async (req, res) => {
    await  http.get(url).catch((err)=>{
                                          res.send("error has happend ");
                                      });
    res.send("Response");
});