# gorilla/context [](https://img.shields.io/github/license/gorilla/.github)  [](https://codecov.io/github/gorilla/context) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/gorilla/context) [](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/context?badge) [](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/7656)  > ⚠⚠⚠ **Note** ⚠⚠⚠ gorilla/context, having been born well before `context.Context` existed, does not play well > with the shallow copying of the request that [`http.Request.WithContext`](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request.WithContext) (added to net/http Go 1.7 onwards) performs. > > Using gorilla/context may lead to memory leaks under those conditions, as the pointers to each `http.Request` become "islanded" and will not be cleaned up when the response is sent. > > You should use the `http.Request.Context()` feature in Go 1.7. gorilla/context is a general purpose registry for global request variables. * It stores a `map[*http.Request]map[interface{}]interface{}` as a global singleton, and thus tracks variables by their HTTP request. ### License See the LICENSE file for details.