Question: Do I need to close/release connection after using fasthttp.Get() method?

[wanghongfei]

It seems that fasthttp doesn't provide any resource cleaning method for its http client:

_, buf, _ := fasthttp.Get(make([]byte, 100), "http://www.google.com")

So do I need to worry about resource leaking problem? How dose fasthttp manage http connections?

Thanks!

[erikdubbelboer]

You don't have to worry about the body returned (it will be garbage collected by Go). The connection to the website can stay alive for the keep-alive duration if the connection supports it.

fasthttp.Get is just a shorthand for defaultClient.Get where defaultClient is just a default fasthttp.Client struct.

If you want more control you can make your own fasthttp.Client with different settings and use the Get method on that.

[wanghongfei]

Thanks for your answer!