Go http request to self signed domain (using go client) (credit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12122159/how-to-do-a-https-request-with-bad-certificate/12122718#12122718)

client-http-insecure-skip.go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "crypto/tls"
)

func main() {
    tr := &http.Transport{
        TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
    }
    client := &http.Client{Transport: tr}
    _, err := client.Get("https://golang.org/")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
}