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The Go standard library comes with excellent support for HTTP clients and servers in the `net/http` package. In this example we'll use it to issue simple HTTP requests. 
package main
 






    
    
        
    

    






    
    
import (

    






    
    
	"bufio"

    






    
    
	"fmt"

    






    
    
	"net/http"

    






    
    
)

    






    
    
        
    

    






    
    
func main() {

    






    
    
        
    

    






    
    
         Issue an HTTP GET request to a server. `http.Get` is a convenient shortcut around creating an `http.Client` object and calling its `Get` method; it uses the `http.DefaultClient` object which has useful default settings.
    
	resp, err := http.Get("http://gobyexample.com")

    






    
    
	if err != nil {

    






    
    
		panic(err)

    






    
    
	}

    






    
    
	defer resp.Body.Close()

    






    
    
        
    

    






    
    
         Print the HTTP response status.
    
	fmt.Println("Response status:", resp.Status)

    
Response status: 200 OK







    
    
        
    

    






    
    
         Print the first 5 lines of the response body.
    
	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(resp.Body)

    






    
    
	for i := 0; scanner.Scan() && i < 5; i++ {

    






    
    
		fmt.Println(scanner.Text())

    
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Go by Example</title>







    
    
	}

    






    
    
        
    

    






    
    
	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {

    






    
    
		panic(err)

    






    
    
	}

    






    
    
}

    






    
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