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Tracing a Web Server from a Client

Explore how to trace HTTP requests from a client to a web server in Go using the net/http/httptrace package. Learn to capture key events such as connection setup and response receipt, helping you troubleshoot and understand request progress in detail.

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This lesson shows how to trace a web server application using net/http/httptrace. The package allows us to trace the phases of an HTTP request from a client.

Coding example

The code of traceHTTP.go that interacts with web servers is as follows:

Go (1.19.0)
package main
import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptrace"
	"os"
)

As expected, we need to import net/http/httptrace before being able ...