Mastering Go - Second Edition

The http.Request type

The purpose of the http.Request type is to represent an HTTP request as received by a server, or as about to be sent to a server by an HTTP client.

The http.Request structure type as defined in https://golang.org/src/net/http/request.go is as follows:

type Request struct { 
        Method string 
        URL *url.URL 
        Proto      string // "HTTP/1.0" 
        ProtoMajor int    // 1 
        ProtoMinor int    // 0 
        Header Header 
        Body io.ReadCloser 
        GetBody func() (io.ReadCloser, error) 
        ContentLength int64 
        TransferEncoding []string 
        Close bool 
        Host string 
        Form url.Values 
        PostForm url.Values 
        MultipartForm *multipart.Form 
        Trailer Header 
        RemoteAddr string 
        RequestURI string 
        TLS *tls.ConnectionState 
        Cancel <-chan struct{} 
        Response *Response 
        ctx context.Context 
}