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authorNiall Sheridan <nsheridan@gmail.com>2016-08-27 01:32:30 +0100
committerNiall Sheridan <nsheridan@gmail.com>2016-08-27 01:32:30 +0100
commit921818bca208f0c70e85ec670074cb3905cbbc82 (patch)
tree4aa67ad2bb2083bd486db3f99680d6d08a2c36b3 /vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/doc.go
parent7f1c9358805302344a89c1fed4eab1342931b061 (diff)
Update dependencies
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/*
Package context stores values shared during a request lifetime.
+Note: gorilla/context, having been born well before `context.Context` existed,
+does not play well > with the shallow copying of the request that
+[`http.Request.WithContext`](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request.WithContext)
+(added to net/http Go 1.7 onwards) performs. You should either use *just*
+gorilla/context, or moving forward, the new `http.Request.Context()`.
+
For example, a router can set variables extracted from the URL and later
application handlers can access those values, or it can be used to store
sessions values to be saved at the end of a request. There are several