MUX is a session management protocol separating the underlying transport from the upper level application protocols. It provides a lightweight communication channel to the application layer by multiplexing data streams on top of a reliable stream oriented transport.

What is MUX Vars?

is a Golang HTTP router. Among other features, it provides a nice way to extract parameters from a request’s path, using mux. Vars which is a map[string]string . … When mux is routing a request, it parses the parameters from the request path, forms the map[string]string for Vars , and does context.

What is Gorilla MUX used for?

Package gorilla/mux implements a request router and dispatcher for matching incoming requests to their respective handler. The name mux stands for “HTTP request multiplexer”.