Setting Headers in Go Seems to Fail

Coding Help
#1

I’m messing around with Go’s HTTP package and am sending requests. I’d like to send a user agent header:

package main
import ( "net/http"; "fmt"; "io/ioutil" )

func main() {
	resp, err := http.Get("https://www.whatsmyua.info/")
	if err != nil {
         fmt.Println("Error: ", err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
    resp.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Riverside Rocks")

	for k, v := range resp.Header {
        fmt.Printf("%s: %s\n", k, v)
	}

	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Printf("\nResponse Body:\n%s\n", body)
}

This code works as expected (it returns the HTML of a website), but the user agent is still “go-http-client”. How can I fix this?

#2

What?
This is no an valid user agent!

#3

I believe you can set the user agent to anything.

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#4

Like this?

resp.Header.Set("User-Agent", "MomRocks/1.0)

#5

Yah there is no such thing as an invalid user agent afaik.

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#6

You look like you’re setting a header in the response. I think you’ll have to read up on how to set a header in the request instead.

#7

Agreed, I saw that. I’m just a bit confused as resp is defined at the time of the request.

#8

Not a go coder, but try putting it before you close the response body? Any chance that that finalises and sends the response?

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