Network Programming with Go: Essential Skills for Using and Securing Networks

by Jan Newmarch

Overview

Dive into key topics in network architecture and Go, such as data serialization, application level protocols, character sets and encodings. This book covers network architecture and gives an overview of the Go language as a primer, covering the latest Go release.
Beyond the fundamentals, Network Programming with Go covers key networking and security issues such as HTTP and HTTPS, templates, remote procedure call (RPC), web sockets including HTML5 web sockets, and more.  
Additionally, author Jan Newmarch guides you in building and connecting to a complete web server based on Go. This book can serve as both as an essential learning guide and reference on Go networking.  

What You Will Learn

• Master network programming with Go 
  
• Carry out data serialization
  
• Use application-level protocols
  
• Manage character sets and encodings
  
• Deal with HTTP(S)
  
• Build a complete Go-based web server
  
• Work with RPC, web sockets, and more
  
  

Who This Book Is For
Experienced Go programmers and other programmers with some experience with the Go language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484226926
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	913 KB

About the Author

Jan Newmarch is Head of Higher Education (ICT), Box Hill Institute, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of IT, Monash University, and Adjunct Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematics Charles Sturt University.

Table of Contents

1. Architecture2. Overview of the Go language3. Socket-level Programming4. Data Serialization5. Application-Level Protocols6. Managing character sets and encodings7. Security8. HTTP9. Templates10. A Complete Web Server11. HTML12. XML13. Remote Procedure Call14. REST15. Web SocketsAfterword