Reusing http connections in Golang

Question

I\'m currently struggling to find a way to reuse connections when making HTTP posts in Golang.

I\'ve created a transport and client like so:

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Answer 1

about Body

// It is the caller's responsibility to
// close Body. The default HTTP client's Transport may not
// reuse HTTP/1.x "keep-alive" TCP connections if the Body is
// not read to completion and closed.

So if you want to reuse TCP connections, you have to close Body every time after read to completion. An function ReadBody(io.ReadCloser) is suggested like this.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "https://github.com", nil)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err.Error())
        return
    }
    client := &http.Client{}
    i := 0
    for {
        resp, err := client.Do(req)
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err.Error())
            return
        }
        _, _ = readBody(resp.Body)
        fmt.Println("done ", i)
        time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
    }
}

func readBody(readCloser io.ReadCloser) ([]byte, error) {
    defer readCloser.Close()
    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(readCloser)
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    return body, nil
}