ResponseWriter (Trailers) in Go

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HTTP Trailers are a set of key/value pairs like headers that come after the HTTP response, instead of before.

Go
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package main

import (
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	mux := http.NewServeMux()
	mux.HandleFunc("/sendstrailers", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
		// Before any call to WriteHeader or Write, declare
		// the trailers you will set during the HTTP
		// response. These three headers are actually sent in
		// the trailer.
		w.Header().Set("Trailer", "AtEnd1, AtEnd2")
		w.Header().Add("Trailer", "AtEnd3")

		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8") // normal header
		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)

		w.Header().Set("AtEnd1", "value 1")
		io.WriteString(w, "This HTTP response has both headers before this text and trailers at the end.\n")
		w.Header().Set("AtEnd2", "value 2")
		w.Header().Set("AtEnd3", "value 3") // These will appear as trailers.
	})
}