Network Programming with Go Language: Essential Skills for Programming, Using and Securing Networks with Open Source Google Golang

© Jan Newmarch and Ronald Petty 2022

J. Newmarch, R. PettyNetwork Programming with Go Languagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8095-9_15

15. WebSockets

Jan Newmarch¹   and Ronald Petty²

(1)

Oakleigh, VIC, Australia

(2)

San Francisco, CA, USA

 

The standard model of interaction between a web user agent such as a browser and a web server such as Apache is that the user agent makes HTTP requests and the server makes a single reply to each one. In the case of a browser, the request is made by clicking on a link, entering a URL into the address bar, clicking on the forward or back buttons, etc. The response is treated as a new page and is loaded into a browser window.

This traditional model has many drawbacks. The first is that each request opens and closes ...