Setting HTTP headers

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Zen picture Zen · Oct 11, 2012 · Viewed 120.9k times · Source

I'm trying to set a header in my Go web server. I'm using gorilla/mux and net/http packages.

I'd like to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * to allow cross domain AJAX.

Here's my Go code:

func saveHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// do some stuff with the request data
}

func main() {
    r := mux.NewRouter()
    r.HandleFunc("/save", saveHandler)
    http.Handle("/", r)
    http.ListenAndServe(":"+port, nil)
}

The net/http package has documentation describing sending http request headers as if it were a client - I'm not exactly sure how to set response headers?

Answer

Zen picture Zen · Oct 11, 2012

Never mind, I figured it out - I used the Set() method on Header() (doh!)

My handler looks like this now:

func saveHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    // allow cross domain AJAX requests
    w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
}

Maybe this will help someone as caffeine deprived as myself sometime :)

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