json - golang http+jsonrpc access from web page

Question

I've used Go's net/rpc and net/rpc/jsonrpc packages a bit to perform connections between Go processes, however I'm wondering if there is a way to connect to an HTTP JSONRPC server using only the server tooling from the standard library (not that I have a problem writing my own, just don't want to do it if I don't have to).

This is the basic server setup I have:

arith := new(server.Arith)

server := rpc.NewServer()
server.Register(arith)

server.HandleHTTP(rpc.DefaultRPCPath, rpc.DefaultDebugPath)

listener, e := net.Listen("tcp", ":4321")
if e != nil {
    log.Fatal("listen error:", e)
}
defer listener.Close()

http.Serve(listener, http.DefaultServeMux)

And I'd like to be able to be hitting this from a web page or a simple command line CURL call - just a regular POST.

However, this line: http://golang.org/src/net/rpc/server.go?s=20445:20475#L670 appears to indicate that it expects an HTTP client to issue a CONNECT and then directly write the JSON RPC request to the stream and receive the reply back the same way. I don't know if this is even possible from a browser, but it certainly is not as common or compatible as a simple POST.

Is there a way to start a JSON RPC server that I can just POST to using good ol' XMLHttpRequest ?

EDIT: Crap - the above is not even using the jsonrpc stuff - this is probably trying to use Gob, but whatever - the problem is the same - the code in src/net/rpc/server.go is not going to handle POSTs, so this route overall isn't going to work regardless of server codec.

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