podman info fails: Error: parse "[::]:2376": first path segment in URL cannot contain colon

[waldiTM]

Issue Description

Running podman info remote via TCP fails with: Error: parse "[::]:2376": first path segment in URL cannot contain colon

The HTTP request is:

GET /v5.2.3/libpod/info HTTP/1.1
Host: d
User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1

The response is:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Api-Version: 1.41
Content-Type: application/json
Libpod-Api-Version: 5.2.3
Server: Libpod/5.2.3 (linux)
X-Reference-Id: 0xc000630010
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:01:27 GMT
Content-Length: 154

{"cause":"first path segment in URL cannot contain colon","message":"parse \"[::]:2376\": first path segment in URL cannot contain colon","response":500}

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Make podman listen on TCP via systemd socket activation. Aka append the podman.socket unit with

[Socket]
ListenStream=
ListenStream=2376

2. Execute HTTP request with echo "GET /v5.2.3/libpod/info HTTP/1.1\nHost: d\n\n" | nc -C localhost 2376

Describe the results you received

HTTP 500 and error parse "[::]:2376": first path segment in URL cannot contain colon

Describe the results you expected

A proper info result.

podman info output

The request `podman info` does itself fail.

* Debian 13
* Podman 5.2.3

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

Privileged

Upstream Latest Release

No

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Additional environment details

Additional information

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