This tag is for questions related to Go's HTTP package
Go's net/http package provides HTTP client and server implementations.
Questions tagged [go-http]
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How do you use Go 1.16 embed features in subfolders/packages?
Go 1.16 is out and I want to use the new embed features. I can get it to work if everything is in the main package. But it's not clear how to handle accessing resources from subfolders/packages. Trying to do it with embed.FS support.
e.g. I have a…
PrecisionPete
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when to use hijack in golang?
I don't understand why we use hijack, since I can write something into response body directly, could anyone explain this?
func writeSome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "write some thing")
}
it is same as this:
func…
crafet
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Go http client timeout vs context timeout
What's the difference between timeout set in http.Client and timeout set in request's context?
I've seen 2 ways of setting timeout in http client.
First:
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Second)
defer cancel()
req, err…
Jake Muller
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tls: no renegotiation error on HTTP request
I'm trying to make a simple HTTP request in Go, after directly following the guides I keep getting the same error:
local error: tls: no renegotiation
I don't quite understand how to interpret this? I know it's not an issue on the server as when I…
Adrian Coutsoftides
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Add headers for each HTTP request using client
I know that I can add headers to each HTTP request manually using
cli := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://myhost", nil)
req.Header.Add("X-Test", "true")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
rsp, err := cli.Do(req)
but I want…
Kirill
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Dial tcp I/O timeout on simultaneous requests
I am building a tool in Go that needs to make a very large number of simultaneous HTTP requests to many different servers. My initial prototype in Python had no problem doing a few hundred simultaneous requests.
However, I have found that in Go this…
Neverbolt
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dial tcp i/o timeout with HTTP GET request
Running into some error, I must be overlooking something.
How can I debug this? Dropping connections?
I read the following:
golang - Why net.DialTimeout get timeout half of the time?
Go. Get error i/o timeout in server program
golang get massive…
R.J.
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Go hijack client connection
Go language http connection hijacking.
I know how to hijack on server side.
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#example_Hijacker
But is there way to hijack it on clients side?
Max
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what is the benefit of using http hijacker
Go http pkg provide a Hijacker interface, can anyone tell when should I use it.
I check the comment, after a Hijack call lets the caller take over the connection, the HTTP server library will not do anything else with the connection.
I understand…
carter2000
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Go equivalent of Python's requests.Session for making many requests with the same basic authentication?
Consider this example for making an HTTP request in Go with basic authentication:
package main
import (
"encoding/base64"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"strings"
)
var userName = "myUserName"
var password…
Kurt Peek
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How to determine if I've reached the size limit via Go's MaxBytesReader
I am new to Go, and using Mux to accept HTTP POST data. I would like to use the MaxBytesReader to ensure a client does not overwhelm my server. According to the code, there is a requestBodyLimit boolean which indicates whether that limit has been…
poundifdef
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Difference between functioning of net.Listen and http.ListenAndServe
I'm new to Go and Networking. I know both net.Listen and http.ListenAndServe creates a server. But what is the difference between their functionality?
luffy
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Golang - Hijack Arguments
When using Hijack() with a http.ResponseWriter instance
Hijack() (net.Conn, *bufio.ReadWriter, error)
What is the difference between reading from the net.Conn and the *bufio.ReadWriter?
Kim Byer
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go-chi router override middleware to set content type
I have a go API which so far has always returned JSON. I use chi router and set it up using middleware like this in my main function:
func router() http.Handler {
r := chi.NewRouter()
r.Use(render.SetContentType(render.ContentTypeJSON))
....
Now I…
markhorrocks
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TLS : Handshake Failure Using GoLang tls client
I'm trying to connect to a server over SSL/TLS using golang http/tsl client which is resulting in 'Handshake Faliure(40)' error, but for some reason, this same endpoint works with CURL command. After some debugging, I have collected the following…
utkarsh sharma
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