The Go Programming Language

1.7 A Web Server

Go’s libraries makes it easy to write a web server that responds to client requests like those made by fetch. In this section, we’ll show a minimal server that returns the path component of the URL used to access the server. That is, if the request is for http://localhost:8000/hello, the response will be URL.Path = "/hello".

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// Server1 is a minimal "echo" server. package main import ( "fmt" "log" "net/http" ) func main() { http.HandleFunc("/", handler) // each request calls handler log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe("localhost:8000", nil)) } // handler echoes the Path component of the requested URL. func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprintf(w, "URL.Path = ...