Echo Quick Start Guide

Go HTTP handlers

At some point in your web application, when you are given a request, you will need to perform actions and provide a response to the request. Within the net/http package, there is an http.Handler interface which is implementable, allowing a common entry point scheme for the web server to run your handler code. The Go web server implementation effectively takes a handler you specify, and for each request it runs your handler's ServeHTTP method, which is defined in the interface. As seen in the documentation (https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Handler) the handler's ServeHTTP method signature includes a parameter for a http.ResponseWriter interface as well as a pointer to the http.Request structure. The following is an example ...