Noticed that we can simply use a []byte slice while investigating
a separate issue. Did the obvious simplification.

Change-Id: I921ebbb42135b5f1a10109236ceb9ae6e94ae7e2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/104757
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>