http.Get connection refused

[nz]

Simple setup, on the same system I do a ..

...~>wget localhost:8000/foo

--2013-09-11 17:18:15--  http://localhost:8000/foo

Resolving localhost... ::1, 127.0.0.1

Connecting to localhost|::1|:8000... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 File not found

2013-09-11 17:18:15 ERROR 404: File not found.

func main() {

response, err := http.Get("http://localhost:8000/foo")

fmt.Println(response,err);

}

<nil> Get http://localhost:8000/foo: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8000: connection refused

Should not GO be returning a 404 in the response ? If I change the server to listen on port 80 then the response is as expected (a 404 response object and a nil error) so it almost seems like go is blocked on some ports ?

Nz

[Dave Cheney]

Look closely at the difference between wget and your go code. Wget
chose to connect on the ipv6 loopback ::1, Go used 127.0.0.1, the IPv4
loopback.

The question is, why is your test server listening only on ipv6.

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[nz]

Thanks for spotting that. I followed it back to a configuration setting in the server software and have the issue resolved.

Nz

[Dave Cheney]

Cool. Glad it was a simple fix.