[go-nuts] Post data and custom headers

Put your post data in an io.Reader of some kind and pass it in to create a
new request
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#NewRequest

Each request has a 'Header' field you can modify.
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Header

Send the request using a client
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Client

The http pkg has a 'DefaultClient' variable defined which you can use.

Is there a suggestion for an io.Reader, im lost on that account

There are lots of io.Readers. Any type that satisfies the
http://golang.org/pkg/io/#Reader interface.
If you have a string, http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#NewReader will get you
an io.Reader for that string.
A []byte then http://golang.org/pkg/bytes/#NewReader<http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#NewReader>
.
Files, network connections, buffers etc. are all io.Readers.


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If I were to just pass the json string into string NewReader, would that be
sufficient, or would that approach only work for say urlenoded data?

post_data := strings.NewReader(jsonString)
req := http.NewRequest("POST", "www.example.com", post_data)

// ... add header stuff

would this be sufficient

Thanks, all is well!