Initial commit...

getPage function queries the url and return the body length
  main function walks through a map of URLs sending each to getPage

main.go

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+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
+)
+
+func getPage(url string) (int, error) {
+
+	resp, err := http.Get(url)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	return len(body), nil
+}
+
+func main() {
+	sites := map[string]string{
+		"Google": "http://google.com",
+		"Yahoo":  "http://yahoo.com",
+		"Bing":   "http://bing.com",
+	}
+
+	for name, url := range sites {
+		length, err := getPage(url)
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("%s	%s\n", name, err)
+		}
+		fmt.Printf("%s	%d\n", name, length)
+	}
+}