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Go Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from Go Web Development Cookbook Build full-stack web applications with Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286740

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Arpit Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Creating Your First Server in Go FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Templates, Static Files, and HTML Forms

3. Working with Sessions, Error Handling, and Caching in Go

4. Writing and Consuming RESTful Web Services in Go

5. Working with SQL and NoSQL Databases

6. Writing Microservices in Go Using Micro – a Microservice Toolkit

7. Working with WebSocket in Go

8. Working with the Go Web Application Framework – Beego

9. Working with Go and Docker

10. Securing a Go Web Application

11. Deploying a Go Web App and Docker Containers to AWS

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Creating a private key and SSL certificate using OpenSSL

To move a server running on HTTP to HTTPS, the first thing we have to do is to get the SSL certificate, which may be either self-signed or a certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority such as Comodo, Symantec, or GoDaddy.

To get the SSL certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority, we have to provide them with a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), which mainly consists of the public key of a key pair and some additional information, whereas a self-signed certificate is a certificate that you can issue to yourself, signed with its own private key.

Self-signed certificates can be used to encrypt data as well as CA-signed certificates, but the users will be displayed with a warning that says that the certificate is not trusted by their computer or browser. Therefore, you should not use them for the production or public servers.

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a private key, a certificate-signing request, and...

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Authors (1)

Arpit Aggarwal

Arpit Aggarwal

Arpit Aggarwal is a programmer with over 7 years of industry experience in software analysis, design, effort estimation, development, troubleshooting, testing, and supporting web applications. He is among the top contributors of StackOverflow with more than 9,000 reputation and more than 100 badges in multiple areas such as Java, Scala, Go, Spring, Spring-MVC, GiT, Angular, Unit Testing, Web Services, and Docker, and has written many technical articles for Java Code Geeks, System Code Geeks, Web Code Geeks, and DZone.

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