Initializing, storing, and passing http.Client structs

The Go net/http package exposes a flexible http.Client struct for working with HTTP APIs. This struct has separate transport functionality and is relatively simple to short-circuit requests, modify headers for each client operation, and handle any REST operations. Creating clients is a very common operation, and this recipe will start with the basics of working and creating an http.Client object.

Getting ready

Configure your environment according to these steps:

1. Download and install Go on your operating system from https://golang.org/doc/install and configure your GOPATH environment variable.
2. Open a terminal/console application.
3. Navigate to GOPATH/src and create a project directory. For example, $GOPATH/src/github.com/yourusername/customrepo.

All code will be run and modified from this directory.

4. Optionally, install the latest tested version of the code using the go get github.com/agtorre/go-cookbook/ command.

How to do it...

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