The Go Workshop

14. Using the Go HTTP Client

Overview

This chapter will equip you to use the Go HTTP client to talk to other systems over the internet.

You will start by learning to use the HTTP client to get data from a web server and to send data to a web server. By the end of the chapter, you will be able to upload a file to a web server and experiment with a custom Go HTTP client to interact with web servers.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you looked at SQL and databases. You learned how to execute queries, how to create tables, how to insert data into tables and fetch data, how to update data, and how to delete data within a table.

In this chapter, you will learn about the Go HTTP client and how to use it. An HTTP client is something that ...