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+**The Gorilla project has been archived, and is no longer under active maintainenance. You can read more here: https://github.com/gorilla#gorilla-toolkit**
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 Package handlers is a collection of handlers (aka "HTTP middleware") for use
 with Go's `net/http` package (or any framework supporting `http.Handler`), including: