The Go HTTP client
The http package in Go is a powerful library that allows you to make HTTP requests to HTTP servers and, in consequence, to your REST APIs. It is part of the standard library, so you don’t need to install anything.
As an example of its simplicity, let’s see the code needed for making a simple HTTP GET request:
resp, err := http.Get("https://example.com")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
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