fix: support IPv6 server addresses and unix sockets in the healthcheck

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Refs #685 (one of four small, independent PRs from that thread; they merge cleanly in any order)

Problem

• The server and the healthcheck built the listen address with fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s"), so an unbracketed IPv6 address such as :: or ::1 failed with too many colons in address.
• The healthcheck always probed TCP, so it failed when server.socketPath was set.

Change

• utils.JoinHostPort wraps net.JoinHostPort, and an already bracketed address like [::] keeps working. Only a matched [...] pair is stripped, so malformed values like ::] or [127.0.0.1 still fail to start, as they do today.
• Healthcheck:
  • probes 127.0.0.1 when the server listens on a wildcard ("", 0.0.0.0, ::; Go serves :: dual-stack, and 127.0.0.1 still works in containers with IPv6 disabled);
  • connects through the unix socket when socketPath is set (proxy env vars are ignored for that transport);
  • closes the response body on non-200 responses too.

Testing

• make vet, make test and go test -race ./... pass.
• New tests cover the address joining and the healthcheck target.
• Container matrix (server address × healthcheck): "", 0.0.0.0, ::, [::], ::1, 127.0.0.1 and socket mode all start and report healthy. On main, ::, ::1 and socket mode fail.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Health checks now use the configured Unix socket when available, or the configured host and port. Empty or wildcard hosts default to IPv4 loopback, and an empty port defaults to 3000.
  • A supplied health-check URL takes precedence over the derived address and disables socket-based probing.
  • Listening addresses now handle IPv6 hosts, including bracketed addresses and scoped addresses, more reliably. IPv4 and hostname addresses continue to work as expected.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The HTTP listener now uses bracket-aware host-port formatting. Health checks derive probe URLs from configured address values or use a configured Unix socket.

Changes

Host and health-check address handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host-port formatting internal/utils/app_utils.go, internal/utils/app_utils_test.go, internal/bootstrap/router_bootstrap.go	Added bracket-aware host-port helpers and tests. The HTTP listener now uses the shared formatter.
Health-check target selection and probing cmd/tinyauth/healthcheck.go, cmd/tinyauth/healthcheck_test.go	Health checks derive a URL and optional socket path from configuration. An explicit URL disables socket dialing. Socket probes use a transport configured to dial the Unix socket, and the response body closes before the status check.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Healthcheck
  participant HTTPClient
  participant UnixSocketServer
  Healthcheck->>HTTPClient: Send request to derived probe URL
  HTTPClient->>UnixSocketServer: Dial configured Unix socket
  UnixSocketServer-->>HTTPClient: Return HTTP response
  HTTPClient-->>Healthcheck: Return response for status check

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The healthcheck now handles the reviewed IPv6 and Unix-socket configurations, with no identified behavior that should block merging.

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