How to send a POST request in Go

Question

I am trying to make a POST request but I can t get it done  Nothing is received on the other side   Is this how it is supposed to work  I m aware of the PostForm function but I think I can t use it because it can t be tested with httputil  right   hc    http Client   req  err    http NewRequest  POST   APIURL  nil   form    url Values   form Add  ln   c ln  form Add  ip   c ip  form Add  ua   c ua  req PostForm   form req Header Add  Content-Type    application x-www-form-urlencoded    glog Info  form was  v   form  resp  err    hc Do req

User · Accepted Answer

You have mostly the right idea  it s just the sending of the form that is wrong  The form belongs in the body of the request   req  err    http NewRequest  POST   url  strings NewReader form Encode

User · Answer

I know this is old but this answer came up in search results  For the next guy - the proposed and accepted answer works  however the code initially submitted in the question is lower-level than it needs to be  Nobody got time for that     one-line post request response    response  err    http PostForm APIURL  url Values       ln    c ln        ip    c ip        ua    c ua       okay  moving on    if err    nil       handle postform error    defer response Body Close   body  err    ioutil ReadAll response Body   if err    nil       handle read response error    fmt Printf   s n   string body     https   golang org pkg net http  pkg-overview

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