ktheory/dalli-elasticache — pull request #19 by yozlet (2014-11-06 22:20:56+00:00)
Title: Raise exception if endpoint is wrong format

So @cpapazian and I were bitten by forgetting to include the colon and port, and when this happens the resulting error (a failure in `remote_command()`) takes a while to track down.

We initially wrote this as just defaulting the port to 11211 if unspecified. However, this severely increases the pain of debugging connections to non-standard ports with only a very minor usability improvement for everyone else.