github.com/ader1990/go@v0.0.0-20140630135419-8c24447fa791/src/pkg/net/http/doc.go (about) 1 // Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 /* 6 Package http provides HTTP client and server implementations. 7 8 Get, Head, Post, and PostForm make HTTP (or HTTPS) requests: 9 10 resp, err := http.Get("http://example.com/") 11 ... 12 resp, err := http.Post("http://example.com/upload", "image/jpeg", &buf) 13 ... 14 resp, err := http.PostForm("http://example.com/form", 15 url.Values{"key": {"Value"}, "id": {"123"}}) 16 17 The client must close the response body when finished with it: 18 19 resp, err := http.Get("http://example.com/") 20 if err != nil { 21 // handle error 22 } 23 defer resp.Body.Close() 24 body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body) 25 // ... 26 27 For control over HTTP client headers, redirect policy, and other 28 settings, create a Client: 29 30 client := &http.Client{ 31 CheckRedirect: redirectPolicyFunc, 32 } 33 34 resp, err := client.Get("http://example.com") 35 // ... 36 37 req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://example.com", nil) 38 // ... 39 req.Header.Add("If-None-Match", `W/"wyzzy"`) 40 resp, err := client.Do(req) 41 // ... 42 43 For control over proxies, TLS configuration, keep-alives, 44 compression, and other settings, create a Transport: 45 46 tr := &http.Transport{ 47 TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{RootCAs: pool}, 48 DisableCompression: true, 49 } 50 client := &http.Client{Transport: tr} 51 resp, err := client.Get("https://example.com") 52 53 Clients and Transports are safe for concurrent use by multiple 54 goroutines and for efficiency should only be created once and re-used. 55 56 ListenAndServe starts an HTTP server with a given address and handler. 57 The handler is usually nil, which means to use DefaultServeMux. 58 Handle and HandleFunc add handlers to DefaultServeMux: 59 60 http.Handle("/foo", fooHandler) 61 62 http.HandleFunc("/bar", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { 63 fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, %q", html.EscapeString(r.URL.Path)) 64 }) 65 66 log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)) 67 68 More control over the server's behavior is available by creating a 69 custom Server: 70 71 s := &http.Server{ 72 Addr: ":8080", 73 Handler: myHandler, 74 ReadTimeout: 10 * time.Second, 75 WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second, 76 MaxHeaderBytes: 1 << 20, 77 } 78 log.Fatal(s.ListenAndServe()) 79 */ 80 package http