Added issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48860
On Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 08:36:25 UTC+1 Amnon wrote: > Is it necessary for a http client to fully read the http response body? > > Opinion on the Go forums seems divided > https://forum.golangbridge.org/t/do-i-need-to-read-the-body-before-close-it/5594 > > But a simple benchmark https://play.golang.org/p/5JDWYbRe0lD > suggests that leaving unread data in the response body will prevent > the connection being reused, and much slower performance. > > The documentation https://pkg.go.dev/net/http states: > > "The client must close the response body when finished with it:" > > The following example does include a call to io.ReadAll(resp.Body) > but it does not spell out whether there would be a performance penalty > for failing to read the entire body. > > It would be good if the standard library documentation was a bit more > explicit here. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/1169be3d-e5a5-4d15-aded-a7f795e5a25an%40googlegroups.com.
