Solution: UnSupported Protocol scheme golang issue

Recently I had faced an issue while using net/http to get the resource from an URL:

Here is my program:

package main

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

type WebScrapper interface {
    PullContent(url string)
}

type webScrapper struct {
}

func (w *webScrapper) PullContent(url string) {
    resp, err := http.Get(url)

    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    defer (func() {
        if r := recover(); r != nil {
            fmt.Printf("Recovered from panic %s", r)
        }
    })()

    log.Printf("Got response for %s and status is %s", url, resp.Status)
}

func main() {
    w := webScrapper{}
    urls := []string{
        "www.google.com",
        "www.facebook.com",
        "www.gmail.com",
    }

    for i := 0; i < len(urls); i++ {
        w.PullContent(urls[i])
    }

}

yes its a lot of code, but don’t worry about code having interfaces and structs and defer. The code is breaking mainly at getting resources from URL.

Get www.google.com: unsupported protocol scheme ""

Solution:

To fix unsupported protocol scheme prepend http:// before every URL.

urls := []string{ 
"http://www.google.com", 
"http://www.facebook.com", 
"http://www.gmail.com", 
}

That’s it!!!

Originally published at https://dev.to on December 5, 2019.