// The Go standard library comes with excellent support
// for HTTP clients and servers out of the box with 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 a HTTP GET request to a server. http.Get is a
    // convenient shortcut around creating a 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)

    // 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())
    }

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