Get all the headers of HTTP response and send it back in next HTTP request - http

Question

Go version: go1.8.1 windows/amd64
Sample code for HTTP request is:
func (c *Client) RoundTripSoap12(action string, in, out Message) error {
fmt.Println("****************************************************************")
headerFunc := func(r *http.Request) {
r.Header.Add("Content-Type", fmt.Sprintf("text/xml; charset=utf-8"))
r.Header.Add("SOAPAction", fmt.Sprintf(action))
r.Cookies()
}
return doRoundTrip(c, headerFunc, in, out)
}
func doRoundTrip(c *Client, setHeaders func(*http.Request), in, out Message) error {
req := &Envelope{
EnvelopeAttr: c.Envelope,
NSAttr: c.Namespace,
Header: c.Header,
Body: Body{Message: in},
}
if req.EnvelopeAttr == "" {
req.EnvelopeAttr = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
}
if req.NSAttr == "" {
req.NSAttr = c.URL
}
var b bytes.Buffer
err := xml.NewEncoder(&b).Encode(req)
if err != nil {
return err
}
cli := c.Config
if cli == nil {
cli = http.DefaultClient
}
r, err := http.NewRequest("POST", c.URL, &b)
if err != nil {
return err
}
setHeaders(r)
if c.Pre != nil {
c.Pre(r)
}
fmt.Println("*************", r)
resp, err := cli.Do(r)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error occured is as follows ", err)
return err
}
fmt.Println("response headers are: ", resp.Header.Get("sprequestguid"))
defer resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
// read only the first Mb of the body in error case
limReader := io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 1024*1024)
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(limReader)
return fmt.Errorf("%q: %q", resp.Status, body)
}
return xml.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(out)
I will call the RoundTripSoap12 function on the corresponding HTTP client.
When I send a request for the first time I will be getting some headers in the HTTP response, so these HTTP response headers should be sent as-is in my next HTTP request.

Answer 1

You may be interested in the httputil package and the reverse proxy example provided if you wish to proxy requests transparently:
https://golang.org/src/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy.go
You can copy the headers from one request to another one fairly easily - the Header is a separate object, if r and rc are http.Requests and you don't mind them sharing a header (you may need to clone instead if you want independent requests):
rc.Header = r.Header // note shallow copy
fmt.Println("Headers", r.Header, rc.Header)
https://play.golang.org/p/q2KUHa_qiP
Or you can look through keys and values and only copy certain headers, and/or do a clone instead to ensure you share no memory. See the http util package here for examples of this - see the functions cloneHeader and copyHeader inside reverseproxy.go linked above.