The purpose of the http.Request type is to represent an HTTP request as received by a server, or as it is about to be sent to a server by an HTTP client.

The http.Request structure type as defined in https://golang.org/src/net/http/request.go is as follows:

type Request struct { 
    Method string 
    URL *url.URL 
    Proto      string // "HTTP/1.0" 
    ProtoMajor int    // 1 
    ProtoMinor int    // 0 
    Header Header 
    Body io.ReadCloser 
    GetBody func() (io.ReadCloser, error) 
    ContentLength int64 
    TransferEncoding []string 
    Close bool 
    Host string 
    Form url.Values 
    PostForm url.Values 
    MultipartForm *multipart.Form 
    Trailer Header 
    RemoteAddr string 
    RequestURI string 
    TLS *tls.ConnectionState 
    Cancel <-chan struct{} 
    Response *Response 
    ctx context.Context 
}