Go Web Development Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Install gopkg.in/boj/redistore.v1 and github.com/gorilla/sessions using the go get command, as follows:

$ go get gopkg.in/boj/redistore.v1$ go get github.com/gorilla/sessions

2. Create http-session-redis.go, where we will create a RedisStore to store and retrieve session variables, as follows:

package mainimport (  "fmt"  "log"  "net/http"  "github.com/gorilla/sessions"  redisStore "gopkg.in/boj/redistore.v1")const (  CONN_HOST = "localhost"  CONN_PORT = "8080")var store *redisStore.RediStorevar err errorfunc init() {  store, err = redisStore.NewRediStore(10, "tcp", ":6379", "",  []byte("secret-key"))  if err != nil   {    log.Fatal("error getting redis store : ", err)  }}func home(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { session, _ := ...