Mastering Go - Second Edition

The http.Response type

The definition of the http.Response structure, which can be found in the https://golang.org/src/net/http/response.go file, is as follows:

type Response struct { 
        Status     string // e.g. "200 OK" 
        StatusCode int    // e.g. 200 
        Proto      string // e.g. "HTTP/1.0" 
        ProtoMajor int    // e.g. 1 
        ProtoMinor int    // e.g. 0 
        Header Header 
        Body io.ReadCloser 
        ContentLength int64 
        TransferEncoding []string 
        Close bool 
        Uncompressed bool 
        Trailer Header 
        Request *Request 
        TLS *tls.ConnectionState 
} 

The goal of this pretty complex http.Response type is to represent the response of an HTTP request. The source file contains more information about the purpose of each field of the structure, which is the case with most struct types found in the standard Go ...