Messing around with get methods and working with byte slices

main.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 func main() {
 	http.HandleFunc("/foo", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		fmt.Println("Hi, ", r.Header)
+		w.Write([]byte("Hi there!"))
 	})
 
 	http_server := &http.Server{
@@ -26,6 +28,11 @@ func main() {
 		log.Fatal(http_server.ListenAndServe())
 	}()
 	fmt.Println("Server started! Listening in on ", http_server.Addr)
+	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+
+	resp, _ := http.Get("http://127.0.0.1:8080/foo") 
+	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	fmt.Println(string(body))
 
 	sigs := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
 	signal.Notify(sigs, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)