A golang HTTP beacon script, with debug

beacon.go

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "os"
    //https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew
    //"go-spew/spew"
)

func main() {
    // Load the config from file
    thisConfig := loadConfig()

    //spew.Dump(thisConfig)

    fmt.Println("URL:>", thisConfig.BeaconUrl)
    resp, err := http.Get(thisConfig.BeaconUrl)

    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    fmt.Println("Response Status:", resp.Status)
    fmt.Println("Response Headers:", resp.Header)

    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println("Response Body:", string(body))
}

type ConfigVars struct {
    BeaconUrl   string  `json:"beaconUrl"`
}

/**
 * This function loads a config file up.
 */
func loadConfig() ConfigVars {
    configFile, err := os.Open("beaconConfig.json")
    defer configFile.Close()
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Opening config file", err.Error())
    }

    var thisConfig ConfigVars
    jsonParser := json.NewDecoder(configFile)
    if err = jsonParser.Decode(&thisConfig); err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Parsing config file", err.Error())
    }
    
    return thisConfig
}