Go - JSON-RPC - “too many colons”

Question

I\'m trying to call a HTTP JSON-RPC server for Bitcoin using Go (not on GAE), but I get error of

dial tcp http://user:pass@127.0.0.1:8332: too many colons in         


        

Answer 1

Use brackets around the host like this:

[user:pass@127.0.0.1]:8332

Reference:

http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/ipsock.go?s=2247:2304#L68