Enough with the web clients: in this section, you will learn how to develop web servers in Go!
The Go code for the implementation of a naive web server can be found in webServer.go, and this will be presented in four parts; the first part is the following:
package main import ( "fmt" "net/http" "os" )
The second part is where things start to get tricky and strange:
func myHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprintf(w, "Serving: %s\n", r.URL.Path) fmt.Printf("Served: %s\n", r.Host) }
This is a kind of function that handles HTTP requests: the function takes two arguments, a http.ResponseWriter variable and a pointer to an http.Request variable. The first argument will be used for constructing the HTTP response, whereas the http.Request variable holds the details of the...