Working with Go

Web Server

The standard library net/http provides a powerful set of tools you can use to make your own web server.

See my Lanyon project: https://github.com/mkaz/lanyon for a more complete server created in Go which converts markdown to html.

package main
 
import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)
 
func main() {
    // associate URLs requested to functions that handle requests
    http.HandleFunc("/hello", helloRequest)
    http.HandleFunc("/", getRequest)
 
    // start web server
    log.Println("Listening on http://localhost:9999/")
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":9999", nil))
}
 
// basic handler for /hello request
func helloRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
    // Fprint writes to a writer, in this case the http response
    fmt.Fprint(w, "Hallo Welt")
    return
}
 
// this function simply serves up the file requested, or
// an index list if a directory is requested
func getRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    file_requested := "./" + r.URL.Path
    http.ServeFile(w, r, file_requested)
    return
}