net/http: invalid method ""

[nathan-osman]

The documentation for http.Request clearly states:

"For client requests an empty string means GET."

However, when I attempt to make an HTTP request (using http.DefaultClient.Do()) with Method set to an empty string, I wind up with the following error:

net/http: invalid method ""

Details

$ go version
go version devel +6bf794a Wed Nov 18 19:00:45 2015 +0000 linux/amd64

[nathan-osman]

Seems like this bug was introduced in this commit: a734a85.

[bradfitz]

Whoops, thanks. Sent https://go-review.googlesource.com/16952

[gopherbot]

CL https://golang.org/cl/16952 mentions this issue.