registry: use len(via)!=0 instead of via!=nil
This avoids the corner case where `via` is not nil, but has a length of 0,
so the updated code does not panic in that situation.
Signed-off-by: Iskander Sharipov <quasilyte@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit a5c185b99404ea3fbab47ff9d7ba143392566bc1)
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>