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Learn HTTP Clients in Go

Call real APIs, parse JSON, handle errors, and make HTTP feel boring in Go.

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What you'll learn in this Go course

Learn the backbone of the modern web: HTTP network communications. You will be writing real HTTP requests in Go, then parsing and displaying the responses. Each challenge in this course is part of a larger application so that you will understand how HTTP is used in the real world.

Chapter List

1
Why HTTP?
Learn about HTTP and how it powers the majority of web communication
2
JSON
Learn one of the most popular data formatting notations in the programming world
3
DNS
Learn about domain names and how they map human-readable names to physical servers
4
URIs
Understand URIs and URLs at a deeper level
5
Headers
Practice adding custom headers to HTTP requests and learn about authorization
6
Methods
Learn about GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests
7
Paths
Learn how URL paths and query parameters relate to typical HTTP requests
8
HTTPS
Learn how to encrypt HTTP requests and keep them secure
9
Errors
Learn how to handle errors in Go
10
cURL
Use cURL and jq to make HTTP requests from the command line

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Great course for learning the basics of HTTP clients!

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Hugh Gramelspacher

Seattle, WA

good

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Dev Kumar Pal

India

i mean this is particulr that kind a course that feels hard after foundations but it definitely gets easy the more you progress

(5/5)
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Ahmed Aaliyan

🌍 Islamabad | Pakistan

its really good

(5/5)
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trent kipper

Turkey

oh yeah baby awesome course

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Alexandro Cocouvi

Benin

This course help me to understand the foundation of HTTP Client - The information about web and client - server is really huge to me.

(4/5)
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Harry-LamNgo

Vietnam

it explains so detailed in the most common details so we can understand it so much better

(5/5)
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Long Đoàn

Vietnam

I am kind bias as I come from the TS and JS world, and I love Go, it's just amazing to pretty much learn everything about the language and how it communicates with the protocol, I think pretty much of the basics were explained correctly, big job!

(5/5)
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Guillermo

Portugal

Typing the client interaction many times, going back and forth between the docs of bytes, io, json and http, questioning why decoding or unmarshaling, etc. involves you more not only with HTTP clients but also Golang ecosystem after the previous long 101 course.

(5/5)
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Manuel Loaiza

Lima, Peru

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