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The Go Programming Language
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The Go Programming Language

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
October 2015
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
14h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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5.8 Deferred Function Calls

Our findLinks examples used the output of http.Get as the input to html.Parse. This works well if the content of the requested URL is indeed HTML, but many pages contain images, plain text, and other file formats. Feeding such files into an HTML parser could have undesirable effects.

The program below fetches an HTML document and prints its title. The title function inspects the Content-Type header of the server’s response and returns an error if the document is not HTML.

gopl.io/ch5/title1
func title(url string) error { resp, err := http.Get(url) if err != nil { return err } // Check Content-Type is HTML (e.g., "text/html; charset=utf-8"). ct := resp.Header.Get("Content-Type") if ...
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