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Building HTTP/1.1 From Scratch in GoPart 2
The HTTP Framing Problem
Published: 4/6/2026Last updated: 4/8/2026

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Caden LundCaden Lund
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Building HTTP/1.1 From Scratch in GoPart 1
How do programs talk to each other?: Files, Pipes, & Sockets
Published: 3/29/2026Last updated: 4/8/2026

Most developers jump straight to net/http and start defining routes, which works fine until something breaks in a way the framework can't explain. This series starts at the bottom: raw bytes, TCP sockets, and the framing problem you have to solve before HTTP even makes sense.

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