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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 every course I have done on Boot.dev has always taught me something and I really enjoy the learning.

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Reito Hasu

Tokyo, Japan

It was an amazing experience learning about this course and if you are a beginner how the web talks with each other , you will really feel very clear learning here , and the videos bro come on , the editor needs a salute , very good experience

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SAQIB SK

INDIA

Simple and effective to the core.

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A L

Sweden

I already knew a lot about clients but hadn't worked with them much in go. this was helpful

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meta-byte

Utah, USA

fun

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Rohit Rajvanshi

India

Awesome course, I liked it a lot. It didn't felt difficult to learn go this way. Thanks a lot

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Felipe

Chile

Really enjoyed learning HTTP clients with more Go!! Thank you

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Francis Quimby

United States

didn't know about the jq tool... very nice, the http.NewRequest was good repetition to make the content glued to my brain

(5/5)
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Marcus Vinicius Paulino

Brazil

It was really hard, especially for someone who tends to write code in Python.

(5/5)
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Kyrgyzstan

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