gistfile1.go

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"github.com/mreiferson/go-httpclient"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"time"
)

// http PUT to given url
func put(url string, data []byte, timeout time.Duration) (response *http.Response, err error) {

	client := httpclient.New()
	client.ConnectTimeout = timeout
	client.ReadWriteTimeout = timeout
	request, err := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, bytes.NewReader(data))
	if err != nil {
		return
	}

	fmt.Printf("fireing req\n")
	response, err = client.Do(request)
	fmt.Printf("returned\n")
	return
}

func main() {
	url := os.Args[1]
	data := "hello world"
	timeout, err := time.ParseDuration("10s")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Can't parse timeout")
	}

	put(url, []byte(data), timeout)
}

fireing req
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0x10 pc=0x4371e2]

goroutine 1 [running]:
net/http.(_Client).doFollowingRedirects(0x0, 0xc2000bb0d0, 0x698d90, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
/home/fish/dev-3rd/go/src/pkg/net/http/client.go:237 +0x62
net/http.(_Client).Do(0x0, 0xc2000bb0d0, 0x3, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
/home/fish/dev-3rd/go/src/pkg/net/http/client.go:128 +0x155
github.com/mreiferson/go-httpclient.(*HttpClient).Do(0xc2000af0c0, 0xc2000bb0d0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
/home/fish/dev/go/src/github.com/mreiferson/go-httpclient/httpclient.go:231 +0x132
main.put(0x7fffb1e3c4f2, 0x15, 0xc2000935c0, 0xb, 0xb, ...)
/home/fish/dev/NEW/putter.go:26 +0x1dc
main.main()
/home/fish/dev/NEW/putter.go:39 +0x107

goroutine 0 [syscall]:
exit status 2