create a http server and read the request body as binary in go

To create an HTTP server in Go, we can use the ListenAndServe function from the net/http package. To read the request body as binary, we can use the io/ioutil package.

Here is an example of how to create an HTTP server in Go that reads the request body as binary:

main.go
package main

import (
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        // Read the request body as binary data
        body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
        if err != nil {
            http.Error(w, "Error reading request body", http.StatusInternalServerError)
            return
        }

        // Do something with the binary data...
        log.Printf("Received binary data from %s: %v", r.RemoteAddr, body)

        // Send a response to the client
        w.Write([]byte("Received binary data"))
    })

    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}
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In this example, we define an HTTP handler function that reads the request body as binary data using the ioutil.ReadAll function. We then log the received binary data and send a response to the client.

We pass this handler function to the http.HandleFunc function to register it with the default ServeMux. Finally, we call http.ListenAndServe to start the HTTP server and listen for incoming requests on port 8080.

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