golang http post request body code example

Example 1: make a get request in go

package main

import (
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	resp, err := http.Get("https://httpbin.org/get")

	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}
	log.Println(string(body))
}

Example 2: golang get request data

package main

func fetchResponse(url string) string{
	resp, _ := http.Get(url)	
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	return string(body)
}

func main() {	
	resp := fetchResponse("http://someurl.com")
	fmt.Println(resp)
}