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• The "One-Way Street" Problem: Why We Clone Request Bodies in Go

  2026-04-19 12:25 MDT

  If you're coming from languages like Python or Java, Go's handling of HTTP request bodies might feel like a trap. We try to read a request body twice (e.g. once for logging and once for processing) and the second time, it's mysteriously empty.

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