You mean missing from the article or from Go stdlib? This was added in Go 1.8 (in beta now), so that link is a bit out of date I think. https://github.com/gola

You mean missing from the article or from Go stdlib? This was added in Go 1.8 (in beta now), so that link is a bit out of date I think. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4674 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4674 Agree that serving http/https with Go is really pretty straightforward - you can do it without all the tweaks in this article, and most people have been. It works remarkably well by default and scales well too without much effort.