Where to put “defer req.Body.Close()”?

Question

I have net/http handlers that have defer req.Body.Close() in each on web server side.

What is the correct place to put this in? Should I pu

Answer 1

A request body does not need to be closed in the handler. From the http.Request documentation

// The Server will close the request body. The ServeHTTP
// Handler does not need to.