Ignore io.Copy when first param is ioutil.Discard

[judwhite]

I have this code as part of handling an HTTP call with a non 2xx status code, and in this case I don't care about the content but need to drain the buffer for keep-alive reasons:

io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, resp.Body)

Questions:

1. Is it reasonable to ignore an error returned from io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, ...)? If not, I'm happy to learn why not.
2. I noticed there's a way to ignore certain functions only if the first parameter is os.Stdout or os.Stderr. In the excludes file, io.Copy does ignore the missing error check, but that's a bit broad. I tried io.Copy(ioutil.Discard) and io.Copy(io/ioutil.Discard) to mimic the other first-parameter behavior but neither of these produced the desired results.

I don't want to ignore ALL io.Copy errors, but I don't even know what else I'd do here since the function is about to return another error anyway.

Do you think this is worth adding? If so, do you think you think this is a good first issue? Thanks!

[judwhite]

Solved with grep -v 😄