Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "GZIP compression means sending the response to the client from the server in a .gzip format rather than sending a plain response."

A block of code is set as follows:

for {  conn, err := listener.Accept()  if err != nil   {    log.Fatal("Error accepting: ", err.Error())  }  log.Println(conn)}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ go get github.com/gorilla/handlers$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. ...

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