// return true if the string includes a port.
func hasPort(s string) bool { return strings.LastIndex(s, ":") > strings.LastIndex(s, "]") }

// removeEmptyPort strips the empty port in ":port" to ""
// as mandated by RFC 3986 Section 6.2.3.
func removeEmptyPort(host string) string {
	if hasPort(host) {
		return strings.TrimSuffix(host, ":")
	}
	return host
}