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Developing a TCP Client

Explore how to create a TCP client in Go by using net.Dial to establish connections, send data, and receive server responses. Understand handling user inputs and managing connection lifecycles to build interactive network clients.

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Developing a TCP client with net.Dial()

First, we are going to present the most widely used way, which is implemented in tcpC.go:

Go (1.19.0)
package main
import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"net"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

The import block contains packages such as bufio and fmt that also work with file I/O operations.

Go (1.19.0)
func main() {
	arguments := os.Args
	if len(arguments) == 1 {
		fmt.Println("Please provide host:port.")
		return
	}

First, we ...