net

package standard library
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Overview

Package net provides a portable interface for network I/O, including TCP/IP, UDP, domain name resolution, and Unix domain sockets.

Although the package provides access to low-level networking primitives, most clients will need only the basic interface provided by the Dial, Listen, and Accept functions and the associated Conn and Listener interfaces. The crypto/tls package uses the same interfaces and similar Dial and Listen functions.

The Dial function connects to a server: 

conn, err := net.Dial("tcp", "google.com:80")
if err != nil {
	// handle error
}
fmt.Fprintf(conn, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n")
status, err := bufio.NewReader(conn).ReadString('\n')
// ...

The Listen function creates servers: 

ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", ":8080")
if err != nil {
	// handle error
}
for {
	conn, err := ln.Accept()
	if err != nil {
		// handle error
		continue
	}
	go handleConnection(conn)
}

Index

Examples

Constants

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const (
	IPv4len = 4
	IPv6len = 16
)

IP address lengths (bytes).

Variables

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var (
	IPv4bcast     = IPv4(255, 255, 255, 255) // broadcast
	IPv4allsys    = IPv4(224, 0, 0, 1)       // all systems
	IPv4allrouter = IPv4(224, 0, 0, 2)       // all routers
	IPv4zero      = IPv4(0, 0, 0, 0)         // all zeros
)

Well-known IPv4 addresses

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var (
	IPv6zero                   = IP{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
	IPv6unspecified            = IP{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
	IPv6loopback               =