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mholt
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Created
February 26, 2016 18:42
Is it necessary to consume response body before closing it (net/http client code)?
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| mholt [9:10 AM] | |
| When using http.Get(), is it really necessary to read the full response body just to close it later? | |
| [9:10] | |
| The docs keep saying `Caller should close resp.Body when done reading from it.` and I keep seeing code like this: | |
| ``` | |
| io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, resp.Body) | |
| resp.Body.Close() | |
| ``` |