I'm very new to Go. Tried this first hello, world from the documentation, and wanted to read the Host and Scheme from the request:
package hello import ( "fmt" "http" ) func init() { http.HandleFunc("/", handler) } func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprint(w, "Host: " + r.URL.Host + " Scheme: " + r.URL.Scheme) }
But their values are both blank. Why?
Basically, since you're accessing the HTTP server not from an HTTP proxy, a browser can issue a relative HTTP request, like so:
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080
(Given that, of course, the server is listening on localhost port 8080).
Now, if you were accessing said server using a proxy, the proxy may use an absolute URL:
GET http://localhost:8080/ HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080
In both cases, what you get from Go's http.Request.URL
is the raw URL (as parsed by the library). In the case you're getting, you're accessing the URL from a relative path, hence the lack of a Host or Scheme in the URL object.
If you do want to get the HTTP host, you may want to access the Host
attribute of the http.Request
struct. See http://golang.org/pkg/http/#Request
You can validate that by using netcat
and an appropriately formatted HTTP request (you can copy the above blocks, make sure there's a trailing blank line after in your file). To try it out:
cat my-http-request-file | nc localhost 8080
Additionally, you could check in the server/handler whether you get a relative or absolute URL in the request by calling the IsAbs()
method:
isAbsoluteURL := r.URL.IsAbs()
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