Simple Golang HTTP server example

Creating HTTP server in Go is as simple as:

package main
import ( "fmt"; "net/http" )

func hi(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
  fmt.Fprintf(w, "Oh hi!\n")
}

func main() {
  http.HandleFunc("/hi", hi)
  http.ListenAndServe(":8222", nil)
}

http.ListenAndServe(":8222", nil)

Here we've created simple server listening for requests on 8222 port of our machine. This is available from net/http package.

http.HandleFunc("/hi", hi)

This asks Go to handle all /hi requests with hi() function.

func hi()

This function just answers to any HTTP request with Oh hi! text. We use fmt.Fprintf to write text to http.ResponseWriter.

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