I believe this is solved with gocraft/web: https://github.com/gocraft/web https://github.com/gocraft/web The middleware would be, per the example there: fun

I believe this is solved with gocraft/web: https://github.com/gocraft/web https://github.com/gocraft/web The middleware would be, per the example there: func (c *YourContext) UserRequired(rw web.ResponseWriter, r *web.Request, next web.NextMiddlewareFunc) { user := userFromSession(r) // Pretend like this is defined. It reads a session cookie and returns a *User or nil. if user != nil { c.User = user next(rw, r) } else { rw.Header().Set("Location", "/") rw.WriteHeader(http.StatusMovedPermanently) // do NOT call next() } } Compatibility with Handler/HandlerFunc is kept at the top level, but not at every step along the middleware chain.