<p>When I try to send requests to internal Kubernetes services I get:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>because the URL is not a standard example.com URL. How can I use HttpClient to successfully send these requests?</p>

Andrei
<p>I just needed to add <code>http(s)://</code> to the URL</p>
