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package main

import (
	"log"
)

func main() {
	// pase the command line aguments
	registerFlags()

	// read the wordlist from a file
	wordlist, err := readWordlist(wordlist)
	if err != nil {
		log.Println(err)
	}

	// define a channel to store the wordlist in
	wordlistChannel := make(chan string)

	// define a channel in which the response gets written into from the go
	// routines
	printChannel := make(chan Response)

	// write the wordlist into a channel
	writeWordlistToChannel(wordlistChannel, wordlist)

	// print the responses from the printChannel
	go printResponses(printChannel)

	// handle one or more theads
	if threads <= 1 {
		httpRequest(wordlistChannel, printChannel)
	} else {

		// loop over all the threads starting a go routine fetching a word from
		// the wordlistChannel, making the request and inserting the result into
		// the printChannel
		for i := 0; i < threads; i++ {
			go httpRequest(wordlistChannel, printChannel)
		}
	}

}