I wrote a simple web server that appends some relative path to the base URL using url.ResolveReference. And then I want to get the content of resultant URL using http.Get() but the problem is that http.get() take string as the argument and I have an object of type *url.URL.How can I resolve this problem?
My code is given bellow:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
)
func factHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
str1 := "http://www.meaningfultype.com/"
u1, _ := url.Parse(str1)
str2 := "/clarendon.html"
u2, _ := url.Parse(str2)
u3 := u1.ResolveReference(u2)
fmt.Println("url:", u3)
res, err := http.Get(u3)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
robots, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
res.Body.Close()
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
contentType := res.Header.Get("Content-Type")
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", contentType)
w.Write(robots)
}
Call the String()
method of u3 and pass the returned string to http.Get()
:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
)
func factHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
str1 := "http://www.meaningfultype.com/"
u1, _ := url.Parse(str1)
str2 := "/clarendon.html"
u2, _ := url.Parse(str2)
u3 := u1.ResolveReference(u2)
fmt.Println("url:", u3)
res, err := http.Get(u3.String()) // Change this line
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
robots, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
res.Body.Close()
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
contentType := res.Header.Get("Content-Type")
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", contentType)
w.Write(robots)
}