Do an HTTP GET Request in Go

net/http provides a couple of ways to do HTTP GET requests.

  1. http.Get

    http.Get(
    "https://howtoxiny.org/en/docs/contributing/?query=value&filter=other",
)

  2. http.NewRequest

    request, err := http.NewRequest(
    "GET",
    "https://howtoxiny.org/en/docs/contributing/?query=value&filter=other",
)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

request.Header.Set("User-Agent", "agent/0.0.1")
request.Header.Set("Accept", "*/*")

http.DefaultClient.Do(request)

  3. http.Request

    parsedURL, err := url.Parse(
    "https://howtoxiny.org/en/docs/contributing/?query=value&filter=other",
)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

request := http.Request{
    Method: "GET",
    URL:    parsedURL,
    Header: map[string][]string{
        "Accept":       {"*/*"},
        "User-Agent":   {"agent/0.0.1"},
    },
}

http.DefaultClient.Do(&request)

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