Http Redirect in Golang

gistfile1.go

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func redirect(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

    http.Redirect(w, r, "http://www.google.com", 301)
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/", redirect)
    err := http.ListenAndServe(":9090", nil)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("ListenAndServe: ", err)
    }
}

You can skip the middle man and go:

http.HandleFunc("/", http.RedirectHandler("http://www.google.com", 301))

You should change 301 to 302.

@donatj

You can skip the middle man and go:

http.HandleFunc("/", http.RedirectHandler("http://www.google.com", 301))

You should change http.HandleFunc to http.Handle

http.Handle("/", http.RedirectHandler("http://www.google.com", 302))

For those suggesting 302 instead of 301:

301 Moved Permanently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301
302 Found - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_302

Depends on use case.

Adding on to what @markus-seidl said, it might be nice to make the http code a parameter

@markus-seidl we know, but the title are "Http Redirect in Golang" not "Http Permanent Redirect in Golang"

@donatj I did that over here https://github.com/keifgwinn/redirector