The net/http Package

Explore how to build web services in Go with the net/http package. Understand key data structures like http.Request and http.Response, and learn to manage HTTP servers and clients efficiently using built-in functions.

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The http.Response type
The http.Request type
The http.Transport type
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The net/http package offers functions that allow us to develop web servers and clients. For example, http.Get() and http.NewRequest() are used by clients for making HTTP requests, whereas http.ListenAndServe() is used for starting web servers by specifying the IP address and the TCP port the server listens to. Additionally, http.HandleFunc() defines supported URLs as well as the functions that are going to handle these URLs.

The next three subsections describe three important data structures of the net/http package—we can ...

1.Course Introduction

2.Introduction to Go

3. Basic Go Data Types

4.Composite Data Types

5.Reflection and Interfaces

6.Go Packages and Functions

7.Telling a UNIX System What to Do

8.Go Concurrency

9.Building Web Services

10.Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

11.Working with REST APIs

12.Code Testing and Profiling

13.Working with gRPC

14.Go Generics

15.Conclusion

16.Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

The net/http Package