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http browserify broken when sending a full node url object

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev

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Start at index.js line 7, where the request URL is assembled from the supplied Node URL object. Reproduce the example with http.get and verify that the generated URL is http://localhost:8081/api/foo?bar=baz, with the port included only once.

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Description

var url = { 
    host: "localhost:8081",
    hostname: "localhost",
    href: "http://localhost:8081/api/foo?bar=baz",
    method: "GET",
    path: "/api/foo?bar=baz",
    pathname: "/api/foo",
    port: "8081",
    protocol: "http:",
    query: "bar=baz",
    search: "?bar=baz",
    slashes: true
  };
  var request = http.get(url, noop);
expected: "http://localhost:8081/api/foo?bar=baz"
actual:   "http://localhost:8081:8081/api/foo?bar=baz"

The url that is requested has the port in it 2 times. This is because of this line.
https://github.com/substack/http-browserify/blob/master/index.js#L7

I am finishing up a pull request to fix this where it will try host first, then hostname+port.

Please let me know if you have any input.

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