Chapter 6: Debugging HTTP Services in Go

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HTTP/2 Debugging

Use GODEBUG=http2debug=2 to debug HTTP/2 connections - how a Google Cloud Storage bug was found

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Dumping HTTP Requests & Responses

Use httputil.DumpRequest and DumpResponse to examine HTTP traffic in wire format

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Test Servers with httptest

Use httptest.NewServer for testing HTTP handlers without opening real ports

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Custom HTTP Transport

Create custom http.RoundTripper to mock, intercept, or modify HTTP traffic

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