I am using go to consume the google maps geocoding API, but I keep getting this error:
The HTTP request failed with error Get https://maps.googleapis.com /maps/api/geocode/json?address=Bangalore&key=KEY: http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client
The url in the error works fine in my browser and gives the appropriate response, but won’t give what I want in the code snippet below:
package main
import(
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
key := "mysecretkey"
location := "Bangalore"
url := "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="+location+"&key="+key
fmt.Println("Starting the application...")
response, err := http.Get(url)
if err!=nil{
fmt.Printf("The HTTP request failed with error %s\n", err)
}else {
data, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
fmt.Println(string(data))
}
}
The weird part is that when I run the same code on repl.it (an online playground), it runs fine. I am running go 1.9.3