Introducing fixed routes that return a fixed HTTP status.

handlers/statuspaths.go

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package handlers
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/go-kit/kit/log"
+)
+
+func NewHTTPStatusPaths(_ log.Logger, paths []string, httpStatus int) func(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	var actions = make(map[string]bool, len(paths))
+	for _, p := range paths {
+		if p == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		actions[p] = true
+	}
+
+	return func(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
+		return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			action := r.URL.Path[1:]
+			if _, exists := actions[action]; action != "" && exists {
+				w.WriteHeader(httpStatus)
+				return
+			}
+
+			h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+		})
+	}
+}

main.go

@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ func decorateHandler(l log.Logger, h http.Handler, b *ratelimit.Bucket) http.Han
 	// Defining early needed handlers last
 	decorators = append(
 		decorators,
+
+		// Checking on the route "health", doesn't support path-segment-stripping!
+		handlers.NewHTTPStatusPaths(l, []string{"health"}, http.StatusOK),
+
 		handlers.NewIgnoreFaviconRequests(),
 		handlers.NewRateLimitHandler(l, b),
 	)