Prove that $f$ is a constant complex function.

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Since $\lim_{z \to 0} z f(z) = 0$ we see that $f$ has a removable singularity at $z=0$, so we may assume $f$ is analytic on $D$.

Let $c=f(z)$ for $|z|=1$. Suppose $z_0 \in D$ and let $|z_0|<r<1$ and $\gamma_r(t) = r e^{it}$, then $f(z_0) = {1 \over 2 \pi i} \int_{\gamma_r} {f(z) \over z-z_0} dz$. Taking the limit $r \to 1$ we get $f(z_0) = c$.

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$f(z_0) = {1 \over 2 \pi } \int_0^{2 \pi} {f(r e^{it}) \over re^{it}-z_0} r e^{it} dt$. Note that the function $z \mapsto z{f(z) \over z-z_0}$ is uniformly continuous on the compact $\{ z | \rho \le |z| \le 1 \}$, where $\rho$ is some number in $(|z_0|,1)$. It follows that $\lim_{r \uparrow 1} {1 \over 2 \pi } \int_0^{2 \pi} {f(r e^{it}) \over re^{it}-z_0} r e^{it} dt= {1 \over 2 \pi } \int_0^{2 \pi} {f(e^{it}) \over e^{it}-z_0} r e^{it} dt = c{1 \over 2 \pi i} \int_{\gamma_1} {1 \over z-z_0} dz = c$.