The Go Programming Language

7.7 The http.Handler Interface

In Chapter 1, we saw a glimpse of how to use the net/http package to implement web clients (§1.5) and servers (§1.7). In this section, we’ll look more closely at the server API, whose foundation is the http.Handler interface:

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net/http

package http

type Handler interface {
    ServeHTTP(w ResponseWriter, r *Request)
}

func ListenAndServe(address string, h Handler) error

The ListenAndServe function requires a server address, such as "localhost:8000", and an instance of the Handler interface to which all requests should be dispatched. It runs forever, or until the server fails (or fails to start) with an error, always non-nil, which it returns.

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