I am using some code that looks like this since my instructor has forbidden us from using the URL module:

let http = require('http');
    http.createServer(function (req, res) {
        let request=req.url.split('/');
        
        console.log(request);
    }).listen(5000);
}

However, this prints two arrays instead of 1, for the URL

http://127.0.0.1:5000/translate/e2s/this+is+the+url

these look like:

[ '', 'translate', 'e2s', 'this+is+the+url' ]
[ '', 'favicon.ico' ]

I can't index these because they behave as a single array so if I do request[3].split('+') for instance, I get an error.

Why is this happening and how can I fix this?