On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Lin Yo-an <cornelius.howl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:59 PM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 2014/1/6 Yo-An lin <cornelius.howl@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> Why "mux" at all? I know "mux" as shorthand of "multiplexing", which is something different than routing. > > Mux was from Go’s net/http package, the mux struct basically does the same thing as router. It stands for "HTTP request multiplexer.” e.g. http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/mux