Things to know about HTTP in Go

Go has a very strong standard library, and one of the most used parts of it is the net/http package, which provides structures that make development of HTTP servers and clients very straightforward. There are a few edge cases, where a deeper understanding of the http and related packages is very welcome.

Most RESTful HTTP API requests don’t have to deal with many things. People generally need to read query variables from GET requests, or Form variables from POST requests, and in some c...