Pico with WiFi shim problems

Yes I think it's something stupid I'm doing. It connects to the WiFi but just won't get anything.

I tried substituting the URL for 172.217.169.14 which I think is the ip for google.com but got the same result.

Thanks,

Here's my code:

digitalWrite(B9,1); // enable on Pico Shim V2
Serial2.setup(115200, { rx: A3, tx : A2 });

const http = require("http");

var wifi = require("ESP8266WiFi_0v25").connect(Serial2, function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("Connecting to WiFi");
  wifi.connect(WIFI_NAME, WIFI_PASS, function(err) {

    if (err) throw err;
    console.log("Connected");

    fetchData();

  });
});

function fetchData() {
  console.log('Fetching data');
  http.get("http://gomako.co.uk/hello.txt", function(res) {
  var contents = "";
    res.on("data", function(data) { contents += data; });
    res.on("close", function() { console.log(contents); });
  }).on("error", function(e) {
    console.log("ERROR", e);
  });
}