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doc: Writing web applications ignores error from ListenAndServe #19511

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joneskoo opened this issue Mar 11, 2017 · 4 comments
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doc: Writing web applications ignores error from ListenAndServe #19511

joneskoo opened this issue Mar 11, 2017 · 4 comments
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joneskoo commented Mar 11, 2017 •
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@campoy:
Does everyone forget to check the error on ListenAndServe? #golang
https://twitter.com/francesc/status/838547440710012928

Nothing in this tutorial https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ Writing Web Applications, in the Articles section of documentation, seems to indicate that ListenAndServe may return an error. Errors should be checked.

https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ListenAndServe
func ListenAndServe(addr string, handler Handler) error
ListenAndServe always returns a non-nil error.

Since I don't see an issue opened by @campoy , I'm opening one.

EDIT: Clarified that the issue is in Article, not the package documentation.
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qqiao commented Mar 12, 2017 •
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The error isn't ignored in the example. It was first logged, then caused an os.Exit(1)

https://golang.org/src/log/log.go?s=9066:9094#L291

@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Go1.9Maybe milestone Mar 21, 2017
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor modified the milestones: Go1.10, Go1.9Maybe Aug 3, 2017
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campoy commented Aug 3, 2017

The documentation pointed by @joneskoo is indeed failing silently if http.ListenAndServe returns an error.
Since we're not using the Shutdown method, I'd say that it's safe to simply add log.Fatal.
I'll send a CL

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Change https://golang.org/cl/53071 mentions this issue: docs: add error handling on http.ListenAndServe

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