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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 will you learn?

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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cool, me understand http clients now

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Berry Smoothie

Kazakhstan

HTTPS is great

(5/5)
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Ambuj Seth

Lucknow, India

After finishing "Learn Go", I started Server part, then hopped on here. This is great. I think this is particularly great right after finishing "Learn Go." Already have done web-development project with JavaScript, but learning from Go's perspective is another story. I really liked it.

(5/5)
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Harim Yoo

South Korea

Loved it!

(5/5)
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Peter

Netherlands

Genuinely entered a state of zen and bliss of knowledge and cleared like half the course in 30 minutes. It's a good one, for sure.

(5/5)
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Yah oo

United States

awesome intro to http clients. Covers all the basics that many other courses in the future will just assume you know.

(5/5)
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Kyle Chermak

United States

This course was extremely informative. I come from a frontend background and I learned so much.

(5/5)
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Brandon Whisnant

Lenoir, NC

I enjoyed this course! It really helped concrete a lot of the previously learned Go lessons, while also introducing some the basics of HTTP clients.

(5/5)
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Lynn Dixon

Chattanooga, TN.

Good introduction into web technologies. I felt like there was too little to do with golang though it was introduced via golang. It was helpful in actually learning how it is done via golang even though I felt like I did not get quite enough hands on experience with this. Maybe its just me though.

(4/5)
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Toms

Ireland

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