How to set timeout for http.Get() requests in Golang?

Question

I\'m making a URL fetcher in Go and have a list of URLs to fetch. I send http.Get() requests to each URL and obtain their response.

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Answer 1

Apparently in Go 1.3 http.Client has Timeout field

client := http.Client{
    Timeout: 5 * time.Second,
}
client.Get(url)

That's done the trick for me.