net/url: parsing "localhost:8080" results in a url.URL with schema "localhost"

[nodirt]

http://play.golang.org/p/9zinaw70z8

u, err := url.Parse("localhost:8080")

here u is &url.URL{Scheme:"localhost", Opaque:"8080"}
should be &url.URL{Host:"localhost:8080"}

Will fix.

[bradfitz]

Not a bug. url.Parse parses URLs. That's not a URL. A URL starts with a scheme.

If you want to split a host and a port there is http://golang.org/pkg/net/#SplitHostPort