I am trying to write an HTTP server in Go for school. I am required to AVOID any libraries that make this task easy (the net/http for example).
My problem is that I cannot seem to display the HTTP Response headers correctly. I want to print each header to my terminal, line by line.
I have written this program in Java, and it works well, however, I would like to have this working with a Go program.
I have a function called 'handleClient' that takes an accepted socket.
func handleClient(c net.Conn) {
defer c.Close()
req, _ := bufio.NewReader(c).ReadString('
')
fmt.Print(string(req))
When using a web browser to connect to 'localhost:8080', my terminal displays "GET / HTTP/1.1", which is correct, however, I need the additional lines to be posted as well. I understand that 'ReadString(' ') is what is stopping this from happening, however, it is the only way I know of to end that line.
How to I start additional lines?
You can call ReadString inside a loop until you hit EOF
.
Something like this:
func handleClient(c net.Conn) {
defer c.Close()
r := bufio.NewReader(c)
for {
req, err := r.ReadString('
')
if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(req)
// break the loop if the err is eof
if err == io.EOF {
break
}
}
mkopriva pointed me in the right direction, however, EOF is not the correct way to break the loop. I need to stop looping when I run into a line that is blank. Technically it is never EOF.
To do this, I have adjusted the if condition to break the loop to the following:
if len(req) <=2 {
After all the headers are read / printed, an HTTP request will end with " " I believe. I can confirm that the last line is intact of length 2.
Thanks for the help!