Network Programming with Go: Essential Skills for Using and Securing Networks

Dive into key topics in network architecture and Go, such as data serialization, application level protocols, character sets and encodings. This book covers network architecture and gives an overview of the Go language as a primer, covering the latest Go release.

Beyond the fundamentals, Network Programming with Go covers key networking and security issues such as HTTP and HTTPS, templates, remote procedure call (RPC), web sockets including HTML5 web sockets, and more.

Additionally, author Jan Newmarch guides you in building and connecting to a complete web server based on Go. This book can serve as both as an essential learning guide and reference on Go networking.

What You Will Learn

• Master network programming with Go
• Carry out data serialization
• Use application-level protocols
• Manage character sets and encodings
• Deal with HTTP(S)
• Build a complete Go-based web server
• Work with RPC, web sockets, and more

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Go programmers and other programmers with some experience with the Go language.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Architecture
Chapter 2: Overview of the Go Language
Chapter 3: Socket-Level Programming
Chapter 4: Data Serialization
Chapter 5: Application-Level Protocols
Chapter 6: Managing Character Sets and Encodings
Chapter 7: Security
Chapter 8: HTTP
Chapter 9: Templates
Chapter 10: A Complete Web Server
Chapter 11: HTML
Chapter 12: XML
Chapter 13: Remote Procedure Call
Chapter 14: REST
Chapter 15: WebSockets