Go HTTP Post and use Cookies

Go 1.1 introduced a cookie jar implementation net/http/cookiejar.

import (
    "net/http"
    "net/http/cookiejar"
)

jar, err := cookiejar.New(nil)
if err != nil { // error handling }

client := &http.Client{
    Jar: jar,
}

First you'll need to implement the http.CookieJar interface. You can then pass this into the client you create and it will be used for requests made with the client. As a basic example:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
    "io/ioutil"
    "sync"
)

type Jar struct {
    lk      sync.Mutex
    cookies map[string][]*http.Cookie
}

func NewJar() *Jar {
    jar := new(Jar)
    jar.cookies = make(map[string][]*http.Cookie)
    return jar
}

// SetCookies handles the receipt of the cookies in a reply for the
// given URL.  It may or may not choose to save the cookies, depending
// on the jar's policy and implementation.
func (jar *Jar) SetCookies(u *url.URL, cookies []*http.Cookie) {
    jar.lk.Lock()
    jar.cookies[u.Host] = cookies
    jar.lk.Unlock()
}

// Cookies returns the cookies to send in a request for the given URL.
// It is up to the implementation to honor the standard cookie use
// restrictions such as in RFC 6265.
func (jar *Jar) Cookies(u *url.URL) []*http.Cookie {
    return jar.cookies[u.Host]
}

func main() {
    jar := NewJar()
    client := http.Client{nil, nil, jar}

    resp, _ := client.PostForm("http://www.somesite.com/login", url.Values{
        "email": {"myemail"},
        "password": {"mypass"},
    })
    resp.Body.Close()

    resp, _ = client.Get("http://www.somesite.com/protected")

    b, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    resp.Body.Close()

    fmt.Println(string(b))
}

At the version 1.5 of Go, we can use http.NewRequest to make a post request with cookie.

package main                                                                                              
import "fmt"
import "net/http"
import "io/ioutil"
import "strings"

func main() {
    // Declare http client
    client := &http.Client{}

    // Declare post data
    PostData := strings.NewReader("useId=5&age=12")

    // Declare HTTP Method and Url
    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "http://localhost/", PostData)

    // Set cookie
    req.Header.Set("Cookie", "name=xxxx; count=x")
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    // Read response
    data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)

    // error handle
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("error = %s \n", err);
    }   

    // Print response
    fmt.Printf("Response = %s", string(data));
}

net/http/cookiejar is a good option, but I like to know what cookies are actually required when making my requests. You can get the response cookies like this:

package main
import "net/http"

func main() {
   res, err := http.Get("https://stackoverflow.com")
   if err != nil {
      panic(err)
   }
   for _, c := range res.Cookies() {
      println(c.Name, c.Value)
   }
}

and you can add cookies like this:

package main
import "net/http"

func main() {
   req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://stackoverflow.com", nil)
   if err != nil {
      panic(err)
   }
   req.AddCookie(&http.Cookie{Name: "west", Value: "left"})
}

https://golang.org/pkg/net/http#Request.AddCookie
https://golang.org/pkg/net/http#Response.Cookies

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