Go Standard Library Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Open the console and create the folder chapter09/recipe04.
2. Navigate to the directory.
3. Create the httpserver.go file with the following content:

        package main        import (          "fmt"          "net/http"        )         type SimpleHTTP struct{}        func (s SimpleHTTP) ServeHTTP(rw http.ResponseWriter,                            r *http.Request) {          fmt.Fprintln(rw, "Hello world")        }        func main() {          fmt.Println("Starting HTTP server on port 8080")          // Eventually you can use          // http.ListenAndServe(":8080", SimpleHTTP{})          s := &http.Server{Addr: ":8080", Handler: SimpleHTTP{}}          s.ListenAndServe()        }

4. Execute the code by go run httpserver.go.
5. See the output:

6. Access the URL http://localhost:8080 ...