Http Client

Advanced · Standard Library & I/O

Making HTTP requests with net/http. (Pairs with testing_advanced/testadv3, which tests an HTTP handler.)

• http1 — http.Get, closing the body, reading the response

Resources

• Go by Example: HTTP Client
• pkg.go.dev: net/http · net/http/httptest

Exercises

http1 test

http1 — HTTP client

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GET, close the body, read it:

resp, err := http.Get(url); if err != nil { return "", err }
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body); return string(body), err

Source