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res.send expects the content to be sent. You're sending a path. If you want to send a document, use res.sendFile instead.



Check out the docs for res.send and notice that you can only use it to send content and not paths.



Also read the docs for res.sendFile.






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        res.send expects the content to be sent. You're sending a path. If you want to send a document, use res.sendFile instead.



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