What steps will reproduce the problem?
If possible, include a link to a program on play.golang.org.
1. export no_proxy=example.com
2. run a go program that connects to foo.example.com via http

What is the expected output?
request bypasses the proxy

What do you see instead?
request hits the proxy. setting no_proxy=.example.com causes the proxy to be bypassed.

Which compiler are you using (5g, 6g, 8g, gccgo)?


Which operating system are you using?
Linux or MacOS

Which version are you using?  (run 'go version')
1.0.3 or 0c135754c93a

Please provide any additional information below.

This is counter to the implementation of no_proxy handling in other common places. For
example, Python:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c744b6f8a09a/Lib/urllib/request.py#l2381

or curl actually handles both cases, but the dot-prefixed version appears to be for
legacy purposes:

https://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/master/lib/url.c#L3936

The relevant part in the Go standard library appears to be
http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/net/http/transport.go#453