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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Leverage Go's expertise for advanced utilities, empowering you to develop professional software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127147
Length 736 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Go Generics 5. Reflection and Interfaces 6. Go Packages and Functions 7. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 8. Go Concurrency 9. Building Web Services 10. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 11. Working with REST APIs 12. Code Testing and Profiling 13. Fuzz Testing and Observability 14. Efficiency and Performance 15. Changes in Recent Go Versions 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix: The Go Garbage Collector

Creating a WebSocket server

The WebSocket protocol is a computer communications protocol that provides full-duplex (transmission of data in two directions simultaneously) communication channels over a single TCP connection. The WebSocket protocol is defined in RFC 6455 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455) and uses ws:// and wss:// instead of http:// and https://, respectively. Therefore, the client should begin a WebSocket connection by using a URL that starts with ws://.

In this section, we are going to develop a small yet fully functional WebSocket server using the gorilla/websocket (https://github.com/gorilla/websocket) module. The server implements the echo service, which means that it automatically returns the client input back to the client.

The https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/net/websocket package offers another way of developing WebSocket clients and servers. However, based on its documentation, pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/net/websocket lacks some features and...

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