go - What errors are outputted to http.Server's ErrorLog struct field?

Question

I'm trying to understand the purpose of an ErrorLog struct field in http.Server struct. By its name I suspect that those are some kind of errors, but which ones?

What would trigger errors being outputted there? Broken network? Too large http requests?

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    _ = &http.Server{
        ErrorLog: log.Default(), // what errors are outputted here?
    }
}

Answer 1

The official documentation provides an overview of how the field is used:

    // ErrorLog specifies an optional logger for errors accepting
    // connections, unexpected behavior from handlers, and
    // underlying FileSystem errors.
    // If nil, logging is done via the log package's standard logger.
    ErrorLog *log.Logger // Go 1.3

In practice, the field is accessed in the *http.Server's logf method. You can check where that method is called. In short (not exhaustive):

• on panics serving HTTP requests (conn's serve(ctx context.Context))
• on TLS handshake errors
• on the server's Serve(l net.Listener) error errors
• on writing non-empty data to the response, if the connection was hijacked
• if the Content-Length is invalid
• if you call WriteHeader(code int) on the same response more than once
• if Content-Length and non-identity Transfer-Encoding headers are used together