Guzzle returns cURL error 3: malformed

Question

I want to try out the guzzle library and am following through their quickstart tutorial to make http requests to an api.

Yet it doesn\'t seem to work, because I get

Answer 1

You should not have this call:

$client->get('/', ['verify' => true]);

That is what is throwing the error. The third line is okay.

The error is means what it says. The url is malformed. In my case on initialization of the Client, I used base_url instead of base_uri. So if you run into this error make sure your url is properly specified.