Developing web clients

In this section, you will learn how to develop web clients in Go and how to time out a web connection that takes too long to finish.

Fetching a single URL

In this subsection, you will learn how to read a single web page with the help of the http.Get() function, which is going to be demonstrated in the getURL.go program. The utility will be presented in four parts; the first part of the program is the expected preamble:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "fmt" 
   "io" 
   "net/http" 
   "os" 
   "path/filepath" 
) 

Although there is nothing new here, you might find impressive the fact that you will use Go packages that are related to file input and output operations...