Puppeteer page.goto error only with readFileSync - url

Question

When using await page.goto('http://www.URL.edu') a PDF is generated, but when loading the same URL from a csv file, Puppeteer returns error.
Thought is might have been either a timing issue or a redirect from http to https, but the script proves both not to be the problem.
The commented out is where the url is loaded from a single CSV file with one row: "1,oldwestbury.edu,SUNY College at Old Westbury"
var dir1 = './screenshots';
var dir2 = './pdfs';
const fs = require('fs');
if (!fs.existsSync(dir1)) {
fs.mkdirSync(dir1);
}
if (!fs.existsSync(dir2)) {
fs.mkdirSync(dir2);
}
function readURLFile(path) {
return fs.readFileSync(path, 'utf-8')
.split('\n')
.map((elt) => {
const url = elt.split(',')[1].replace('\r', '');
return `http://${url.toLowerCase()}`;
});
}
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async () => {
const startDate = new Date().getTime();
const USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3239.108 Safari/537.36';
const urls = readURLFile('./UNVurls.csv');
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
headless: true
});
for (let url of urls) {
console.log(`Visiting url: ${url}`);
let page = await browser.newPage();
try {
await page.setViewport({ width: 1440, height: 900, deviceScaleFactor: 2 });
await page.goto('http://www.oldwestbury.edu')
// await page.goto(url, {
// waitUntil: 'networkidle2',
// timeout: 0
// });
let fileName = url.replace(/(\.|\/|:|%|#)/g, "_");
if (fileName.length > 100) {
fileName = fileName.substring(0, 100);
}
await page.waitForSelector('title');
await page.screenshot({
path: `./screenshots/${fileName}.jpeg`,
omitBackground: true
});
await page.emulateMedia('screen');
await page.pdf({
path: `./pdfs/${fileName}.pdf`,
pageRanges: "1",
format: 'A4',
printBackground: true
});
} catch (err) {
console.log(`An error occured on url: ${url}`);
} finally {
await page.close();
}
}
await browser.close();
console.log(`Time elapsed ${Math.round((new Date().getTime() - startDate) / 1000)} s`);
})();
Hoping to determine WHY the PDF is created when using the url direct and why the page load fails when retrieving from CSV file.