Combine URL paths with path.Join()

The function path.Join expects a path, not a URL. Parse the URL to get a path and join with that path:

u, err := url.Parse("http://foo")
u.Path = path.Join(u.Path, "bar.html")
s := u.String() // prints http://foo/bar.html

playground example

If you are combining more than the path (scheme or host for example) or the string is more than the path (it includes a query string for example), then use ResolveReference.

ResolveReference() in net/url package

The accepted answer will not work for relative url paths containing file endings like .html or .img. The ResolveReference() function is the correct way to join url paths in go.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/url"
)

func main() {
    u, err := url.Parse("../../..//search?q=dotnet")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    base, err := url.Parse("http://example.com/directory/")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(base.ResolveReference(u))
}

A simple approach to this would be to trim the /'s you don't want and join. Here is an example func

func JoinURL(base string, paths ...string) string {
    p := path.Join(paths...)
    return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", strings.TrimRight(base, "/"), strings.TrimLeft(p, "/"))
}

Usage would be

b := "http://my.domain.com/api/"
u := JoinURL(b, "/foo", "bar/", "baz")
fmt.Println(u)

This removes the need for checking/returning errors