Hey!
I saw your post and to me it looks like the issue is in your JavaScript code. You're using response.statusText
, which is not the response body. It's expected to see exactly what you're observing, because statusText
just gives you the standard reason phrase for the status code (like "Forbidden"
for 403), and not the actual text you set in Go with http.Error
.
If you curl
that endpoint, you should see that the Go code behaves correctly and returns your custom message in the body. So the Go server is likely doing the right thing — it's just that the JS code isn't reading the body where your "Whatever! I return an error"
message lives.
Try replacing response.statusText
with await response.text()
and you should get your custom message back.
If that's not the case and your code snippet is just not representing what you use, share the corrected version in a follow up.
Hope that helps.
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