Forcefully Closing TCP Connections in Golang

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Working with TCP servers is a great way to become familiar with low-level network communications. When writing applications that communicate directly over TCP sockets a multitude of socket management steps are required. Actions that you typically don’t have to take for a typical HTTP-based application.

Sometimes, those extra management steps include having to close a TCP session…