HTTP request fails when executed asynchronously - go

Question

I'm trying to write a tiny application in Go that can send an HTTP request to all IP addresses in hopes to find a specific content. The issue is that the application seems to crash in a very peculiar way when the call is executed asynchronously.
ip/validator.go
package ip
import (
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"regexp"
"time"
)
type ipValidator struct {
httpClient http.Client
path string
exp *regexp.Regexp
confirmationChannel *chan string
}
func (this *ipValidator) validateUrl(url string) bool {
response, err := this.httpClient.Get(url)
if err != nil {
return false
}
defer response.Body.Close()
if response.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
return false
}
bodyBytes, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
result := this.exp.Match(bodyBytes)
if result && this.confirmationChannel != nil {
*this.confirmationChannel <- url
}
return result
}
func (this *ipValidator) ValidateIp(addr ip) bool {
httpResult := this.validateUrl("http://" + addr.ToString() + this.path)
httpsResult := this.validateUrl("https://" + addr.ToString() + this.path)
return httpResult || httpsResult
}
func (this *ipValidator) GetSuccessChannel() *chan string {
return this.confirmationChannel
}
func NewIpValidadtor(path string, exp *regexp.Regexp) ipValidator {
return newValidator(path, exp, nil)
}
func NewAsyncIpValidator(path string, exp *regexp.Regexp) ipValidator {
c := make(chan string)
return newValidator(path, exp, &c)
}
func newValidator(path string, exp *regexp.Regexp, c *chan string) ipValidator {
httpClient := http.Client{
Timeout: time.Second * 2,
}
return ipValidator{httpClient, path, exp, c}
}
main.go
package main
import (
"./ip"
"fmt"
"os"
"regexp"
)
func processOutput(c *chan string) {
for true {
url := <- *c
fmt.Println(url)
}
}
func main() {
args := os.Args[1:]
fmt.Printf("path: %s regex: %s", args[0], args[1])
regexp, regexpError := regexp.Compile(args[1])
if regexpError != nil {
fmt.Println("The provided regexp is not valid")
return
}
currentIp, _ := ip.NewIp("172.217.22.174")
validator := ip.NewAsyncIpValidator(args[0], regexp)
successChannel := validator.GetSuccessChannel()
go processOutput(successChannel)
for currentIp.HasMore() {
go validator.ValidateIp(currentIp)
currentIp = currentIp.Increment()
}
}
Note the line that says go validator.ValidateIp(currentIp) in main.go. Should I remove the word "go" to execute everything within the main routine, the code works as expected -> it sends requests to IP addresses starting 172.217.22.174 and should one of them return a legitimate result that matches the regexp that the ipValidator was initialized with, the URL is passed to the channel and the value is printed out by processOutput function from main.go. The issue is that simply adding go in front of validator.ValidateIp(currentIp) breaks that functionality. In fact, according to the debugger, I never seem to go past the line that says response, err := this.httpClient.Get(url) in validator.go.
The struggle is real. Should I decide to scan the whole internet, there's 256^4 IP addresses to go through. It will take years, unless I find a way to split the process into multiple routines.