x/tools/cmd/godoc: add https support?

[Happy-Ferret]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go1.8 linux/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOOS="linux"

What did you do?

I'm trying to serve godoc on a server that enforces https redirection

godoc -http=:60000

What did you expect to see?

When I browsed to https://<url>:60000, I expected to see a working godoc landing page.

What did you see instead?

A page informing me of ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
"Unable to make a secure connection to the server"

Is there a way to serve godocs over https, using the godoc utility?

[bradfitz]

We do already have such support, but it's behind a build tag.

You can do:

$ go install --tags=autocert golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc

And then it'll listen on port 443 and use LetsEncrypt to get a cert.

We can use this bug to track making that more official.

[Happy-Ferret]

Thanks.

Any way to ``go get`´ this from Github? Golang.org is, for some reason, blocked at my company. Knowing the IT guys here, they'll have it unblocked just in time for Go 20.1...

[ianlancetaylor]

I don't know whether go get works, but you can clone it from the https://github.com/golang/tools repo.

[bradfitz]

Pushing this to Go 1.10, by which time I hope we'll have our package management story more sorted out.

[bradfitz]

(as my change above depends on golang.org/x/crypto/autocert)