Retrieve uri path from net.Conn - go

Question

I'm working with someone else's code and I need some assistance.
Here we have a tcp load balancer. What I need is access to the request uri from this piece of code before we do the net dial.
I looked through the API Documentation here: https://golang.org/pkg/net/ but was unable to find any relevant methods under the net.Conn namespace for retrieving the current request path.
func copy(wc io.WriteCloser, r io.Reader) {
defer wc.Close()
io.Copy(wc, r)
}
func handleConnection(us net.Conn, backend BA.Backend) {
if backend == nil {
log.Printf("no backend available for connection from %s", us.RemoteAddr())
us.Close()
return
}
ip:=us.RemoteAddr().String()
parts:=strings.Split(ip,":")
ip=parts[0]
//w := bufio.NewWriter(us)
//w.WriteString(+"\n")
//w.Flush()
ds, err := net.Dial("tcp", backend.String())
if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed to dial %s: %s", backend, err)
us.Close()
return
}
// Ignore errors
go copy(ds, us)
go copy(us, ds)
}
func tcpBalance(bind string, backends BA.Backends) error {
log.Println("using tcp balancing")
ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", bind)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed to bind: %s", err)
}
log.Printf("listening on %s, balancing %d backends", bind, backends.Len())
for {
conn, err := ln.Accept()
if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed to accept: %s", err)
continue
}
go handleConnection(conn, backends.Choose())
}
return err
}

Answer 1

This is not possible because not every TCP connection is an HTTP connection and the TCP protocol has no concept of URIs. Many other protocols are built on TCP and it's not that protocol's responsibility to know about them.
HTTP is an Application Layer (layer 7) protocol which uses the TCP Transport Layer (layer 4) protocol. As such, TCP connections have no concept of HTTP because lower layer protocols have no concept of the layers that may be built on top of them.
You can learn more by reading about the OSI model.