Go: panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

When running my Go program, it panics and returns the following:

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0x38 pc=0x26df]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.getBody(0x1cdcd4, 0xf800000004, 0x1f2b44, 0x23, 0xf84005c800, ...)
        /Users/matt/Dropbox/code/go/scripts/cron/fido.go:65 +0x2bb
main.getToken(0xf84005c7e0, 0x10)
        /Users/matt/Dropbox/code/go/scripts/cron/fido.go:140 +0x156
main.main()
        /Users/matt/Dropbox/code/go/scripts/cron/fido.go:178 +0x61

goroutine 2 [syscall]:
created by runtime.main
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:221

goroutine 3 [syscall]:
syscall.Syscall6()
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/syscall/asm_darwin_amd64.s:38 +0x5
syscall.kevent(0x6, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf840085188, 0xa, ...)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/syscall/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:199 +0x88
syscall.Kevent(0xf800000006, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf840085188, 0xa0000000a, ...)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_bsd.go:546 +0xa4
net.(*pollster).WaitFD(0xf840085180, 0xf840059040, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/net/fd_darwin.go:96 +0x185
net.(*pollServer).Run(0xf840059040, 0x0)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/net/fd.go:236 +0xe4
created by net.newPollServer
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.3/src/pkg/net/newpollserver.go:35 +0x382

I've looked at the responses others have had to the same exception, but can't see anything simple (i.e. an unhandled error).

I am running it on a machine that does not have access to the API servers listed in the code, but I was hoping it'd return an appropriate error (as I've attempted to catch errors of that kind).

``
package main

/*
Fido fetches the list of public images from the Glance server, captures the IDs of images with 'status': 'active' and then queues the images for pre-fetching with the Glance CLI utility glance-cache-manage. Once the images are added to the queue, glance-ca

According to the docs for func (*Client) Do:

"An error is returned if caused by client policy (such as CheckRedirect), or if there was an HTTP protocol error. A non-2xx response doesn't cause an error.

When err is nil, resp always contains a non-nil resp.Body."

Then looking at this code:

res, err := client.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()

if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}

I'm guessing that err is not nil. You're accessing the .Close() method on res.Body before you check for the err.

The defer only defers the function call. The field and method are accessed immediately.

So instead, try checking the error immediately.

res, err := client.Do(req)

if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
defer res.Body.Close()

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