Serving secured HTTP content

This recipe describes the simplest way of creating the HTTP server, which serves the content via the TLS/SSL layer.

Getting ready

Prepare the private key and self-signed X-509 certificate. For this purpose, the OpenSSL utility could be used. By executing the command openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048, the private key derived with the use of an RSA algorithm is generated to the file server.key. Based on this private key, the X-509 certificate could be generated by calling openssl req -new -x509 -sha256 -key server.key -out server.crt -days 365. The server.crt file is created.

How to do it...

1. Open the console and create the folder chapter09/recipe12.
2. Navigate to the directory.
3. Place the created server.key and server.crt files in it.
4. Create the file servetls.go with the following content:

        package main

        import (
          "fmt"
          "net/http"
        )

        type SimpleHTTP struct{}

          func (s SimpleHTTP) ServeHTTP(rw http.ResponseWriter...