From 4452224d6ac786d1d1a723490d08aa7038088f31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Murret <john.murret@hashicorp.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:15:52 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add comment.  remove test

---
 api/api.go      |  7 +++++++
 api/api_test.go | 23 -----------------------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/api.go b/api/api.go
index d6b4a25502d7..18bb3479c9be 100644
--- a/api/api.go
+++ b/api/api.go
@@ -1000,6 +1000,13 @@ func (r *request) toHTTP() (*http.Request, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// validate that socket communications that do not use the host, detect
+	// slashes in the host name and replace it with local host.
+	// this is required since go started validating req.host in 1.20.6 and 1.19.11.
+	// prior to that they would strip out the slashes for you.  They removed that
+	// behavior and added more strict validation as part of a CVE.
+	// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60374
+	// the hope is that
 	if strings.HasPrefix(r.url.Host, "/") {
 		r.url.Host = "localhost"
 	}
diff --git a/api/api_test.go b/api/api_test.go
index 230d8f9fdfa5..4d5dd1fda830 100644
--- a/api/api_test.go
+++ b/api/api_test.go
@@ -991,29 +991,6 @@ func TestAPI_RequestToHTTP(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAPI_RequestToHTTP_PrefixedWithSlashes(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-	c, s := makeClient(t)
-	defer s.Stop()
-
-	c.config.Address = "/tmp/mysocket.sock"
-	r := c.newRequest("DELETE", "/v1/kv/foo")
-	q := &QueryOptions{
-		Datacenter: "foo",
-	}
-	r.setQueryOptions(q)
-	req, err := r.toHTTP()
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	// validate that socket communications that do not use the host, detect
-	// slashes in the host name and replace it with local host.
-	// this is required since go started validating req.host in 1.20.6.
-	// prior to that they would strip out the slahes for you.  They removed that
-	// behavior and added more strict validation as part of a CVE.
-	// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11206
-	require.Equal(t, "localhost", req.Host)
-
-}
-
 func TestAPI_ParseQueryMeta(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	resp := &http.Response{