In this chapter, we examined how network connections are handled in Go. We started with some network standards. First, we discussed the OSI model, and then TCP/IP.

Then, we checked the network package and learned how to use it to create and manage TCP connections. This included the handling of special commands and how to terminate the connection from the server side. Next, we saw how to do the same with UDP, and we have seen how to implement a custom encoding with checksum control.

Then, we discussed the HTTP protocol, explained how the first version works, and then talked about the differences and improvements of HTTP/2. Then, we learned how to make an HTTP request using Go, followed by how to set up a web server. We explored how to serve existing files, how to associate different actions to different HTTP methods, and how to handle multipart requests and file uploads...