Go by Example: HTTP Client

The Go standard library comes with excellent support for HTTP clients and servers in the `net/http` package. In this example we’ll use it to issue simple HTTP requests.	`package main`
	`import ( "bufio" "fmt" "net/http" )`
	`func main() {`
Issue an HTTP GET request to a server. `http.Get` is a convenient shortcut around creating an `http.Client` object and calling its `Get` method; it uses the `http.DefaultClient` object which has useful default settings.	`resp, err := http.Get("https://gobyexample.com") if err != nil { panic(err) } defer resp.Body.Close()`
Print the HTTP response status.	`fmt.Println("Response status:", resp.Status)`
Print the first 5 lines of the response body.	`scanner := bufio.NewScanner(resp.Body) for i := 0; scanner.Scan() && i < 5; i++ { fmt.Println(scanner.Text()) }`
	`if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil { panic(err) } }`

$ go run http-clients.go
Response status: 200 OK
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Go by Example</title>

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